μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

  • French CanadianBarbeau JAFL XXIX 21
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • Cape Verde IslandsParsons MAFLS XV (1) 112 No. 39.
  • general *Type 650
  • general Fb "kilde" II 119a, "møllesten" II 650b
Within the index

Filed under Strong hero overawes master.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Strong hero asks that chickens stop scratching. When his master throws millstone on him he complains that chickens are scratching dirt on himCamels having fallen from sky into girl's eyes; she tells her mother that some grains of sand have fallen down from sky
Carried in tale types

wander