μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 9references

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.

  • Irish myth*Cross
  • IcelandicBoberg
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • TongaGifford 159
  • Eskimo (West Hudson Bay)Boas BAM XV 259
  • N. Am. IndianThompson CColl II 345ff.
  • Africa (Ba Ronga)Einstein 246.
  • general *Type 513
  • general BP II 79ff.
Within the index

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

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
Lie: remarkable drinker. (Cf. F633.)
Carried in tale types

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