μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • IcelandicHerrmann Saxo II 265ff., *Boberg.
  • general *Penzer VI 219, 288, VII 204ff.
Within the index

Filed under Extraordinary powers of perception.

12 finer motifs beneath it
Marvelous sensitiveness: meat (wine) tastes of corpse. Has been near graveMarvelous sensitiveness: suffering from merely seeing work doneMarvelous sensitiveness: injury from rose leaves falling. (Cf. F647.9.)Marvelous sensitiveness: women blush in presence of male statueMarvelous sensitiveness: woman smells like a goatMarvelous sensitiveness: wine shows through woman's white throatMarvelous sensitiveness: ulcer from moon's raysMarvelous sensitiveness: fainting from noise of wooden pestle and mortarMarvelous sensitiveness: blister on back from lying in rose leaves. (Cf. F647.3.)Marvelous sensitiveness: man refuses to eat fifth descendent of stolen cowMarvelous sensitiveness: clarified butter was someone's leavingsGirl (princess) so delicate she can live only on the perfume of flowers
Filed beside it
Person of remarkable hearing. (Cf. X936.)Person of remarkable sight. (Cf. X938.)Marvelously wise manExtraordinary 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

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