μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • JewishNeuman
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 347, 1288.
Within the index

Filed under Other extraordinary human beings.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Prince who never laughsSad-faced princess cannot laugh
Filed beside it
Extremely old personDancers upon whom icicles hangNegro so black that he makes whole garden somberLuminous personRemarkable 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 intercourseHero has lain motionless since birthPerson remarkably light in weightPhantomsMan'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
Carried in tale types

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