μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • Jewish*Neuman.
Within the index

Filed under Other extraordinary human beings.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Remarkably beautiful womanHandsome manRemarkably beautiful child
Filed beside it
Extremely old personDancers upon whom icicles hangNegro so black that he makes whole garden somberLuminous personExtraordinary 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 intercourseHero has lain motionless since birthPerson remarkably light in weightPhantomsPerson who never laughsMan's ferocious glance kills (causes swooning)Person's extraordinary body temperature. (Cf. F546.5)Man whose entrails are visible when he laughsMan's body exudes sweet scent
Travels with
Resplendent beauty. Woman's face lights up the dark

wander