μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Luminous person.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Remarkable persons. · Other extraordinary human beings. · view the constellation · filed as F574

Filed across the traditions
  • Jewish *Neuman
  • India *Thompson-Balys, Penzer II 43 n. 2, VI 1 n. 1.
Within the index

Filed under Other extraordinary human beings.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Resplendent beauty. Woman's face lights up the dark Man with luminous arms Holy man (hero) emits light
Filed beside it
Extremely old person Dancers upon whom icicles hang Negro so black that he makes whole garden somber Remarkable beauty. (Cf. F574.1.) Extraordinary ugliness. (Cf. A2402.) Persons identical in appearance. (Cf. F1072.) [First Edition: F581. Woman who drives those who see her mad. (Inadvertant duplication of F1041.8.1.)] Poison damsel. Woman nourished on poison is fatal to her husbands. Sometimes the poisoning is from fatal look or breath, sometimes from intercourse Hero has lain motionless since birth Person remarkably light in weight Phantoms Person who never laughs Man's ferocious glance kills (causes swooning) Person's extraordinary body temperature. (Cf. F546.5) Man whose entrails are visible when he laughs Man's body exudes sweet scent

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