μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Person of remarkable hearing. (Cf. X936.)

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Persons with extraordinary powers. · Extraordinary powers of perception. · view the constellation · filed as F641

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "ouie"
  • Italian Basile Pentamerone I No. 5, III No. 8
  • Buriat Holmberg 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) grow Man can hear ant leave nest fifty miles away Man can hear one sleeping by putting ear to ground
Filed beside it
Person of remarkable sight. (Cf. X938.) Marvelously wise man Marvelous sensitiveness Extraordinary sympathy (telepathic) with wild animals Remarkable power to walk directly to nearest water Marvelous 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 (Thompson’s cf.)
Lie: person with remarkable hearing. (Cf. F641.)

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