μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 7references

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
  • BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "ouie"
  • ItalianBasile Pentamerone I No. 5, III No. 8
  • BuriatHolmberg Siberian 428.
  • general *Type 513
  • general BP II 79ff. *95
  • general Fb "jord" II 45a
Within the index

Filed under Extraordinary powers of perception.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Man can hear grass (wool) growMan can hear ant leave nest fifty miles awayMan can hear one sleeping by putting ear to ground
Filed beside it
Person of remarkable sight. (Cf. X938.)Marvelously wise manMarvelous sensitivenessExtraordinary sympathy (telepathic) with wild animalsRemarkable power to walk directly to nearest waterMarvelous sense of smell. (Cf. F647.5.)Remarkable power of recognition. Man remembers all people he has met. (Cf. F692.)Extraordinary perception of blind men
Travels with
Lie: person with remarkable hearing. (Cf. F641.)

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