μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 13references

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
  • BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "arbres"
  • French CanadianBarbeau JAFL XXIX 21
  • SwissJegerlehner Oberwallis 295 No. 13
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • HawaiiDixon 90, Beckwith Myth 421
  • SamoaIbid. 254
  • TongaGifford 127
  • TuamotuStimson MS (z-G 3/1323).
  • general *Type 513
  • general BP II 79ff.
  • general *Fb "træ" III 867b. – Irish myth: *Cross
Within the index

Filed under Remarkably strong man. (Strong John). (Cf. X940, X959.1.)

3 finer motifs beneath it
Trees pulled up by animalsTrees pulled up by giantTree as strong man's umbrella
Filed beside it
Remarkably strong womanWild man of superhuman strengthDwarf-hero of superhuman strengthWarrior of special strength (Berserk). (Cf. F1041.8.6.)Man with strength of many menMan with strength of animalsMan so strong that he breaks most of what he gets in touch with. (Cf. F614.3-F614.6.)Strong man is so heavy that no horse can carry him all day. (Cf. F681.8.)Strong man so heavy that only his own horse can carry himStrong man accomplishes superhuman tasks when God's spirit is over himStrong man's birth and rearingStrong hero sent from homeStrong man makes labor contractStrong man's laborsStrong man evades death. Vain attempts to kill himMighty pugilist
Travels with
Strong hero practices uprooting trees. (Cf. F621.)Strong man uproots tree and uses it as weapon
Carried in tale types

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