μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 21references

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.

  • IcelandicBoberg
  • Missouri FrenchCarrière
  • ItalianBasile Pentamerone I No. 5, Rotunda
  • BuriatHolmberg Siberian 428
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • IndonesianDe Vries Nederlandsche Tijdschrift voor Volkskunde (1924) 97ff.
  • KoreanZong in-Sob 163f.
  • ChineseGraham
  • JapaneseIkeda
  • PhilippineFansler MAFLS XII 27, 114, 128, 433
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson CColl II 334ff., 345ff.
  • general *Types 301B, 513, 514, 571
  • general *BP II 79, 95
  • general *Benfey *Kleinere Schriften III 94
  • general *Köhler-Bolte I 601 s. v. "Gefährten"
  • general *Cosquin Contes indiens 431ff.
  • general *Kittredge Arthur and Garlagon 226 n. 3
  • general Jacobs's list s. v. "Extraordinary Companions"
  • general Alphabet No. 693
  • general *Chauvin VII 125 No. 392. – Irish myth: *Cross
  • general Koryak, Mongol-Turk: Jochelson JE VI 363
Within the index

Filed under Persons with extraordinary powers.

8 finer motifs beneath it
Skillful companionsExtraordinary companions perform hero's tasksExtraordinary companions help hero in suitor testsExtraordinary companions betray heroExtraordinary companions rescue heroExtraordinary companions are brothers (twins, triplets)Extraordinary companions are transformed animalsAnimals as extraordinary companions
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