μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Filed across the traditions
  • Irish O'Suilleabhain 33, 58, Beal XXI 311, 323
  • Jewish *Neuman
  • New Zealand Dixon 73
  • Africa Werner African 184.
  • general Gaster Oldest Stories 152
Within the index

Filed under Access to lower world.

1 finer motif beneath it
Slamming door on exit from mountain otherworld. It (almost) injures the hero because he has failed to bring back the talisman which opened the mountain
Filed beside it
Pit entrance to lower world. Entrance through pit, hole, spring, or cavern Water entrance to lower world Stair to lower world Path to lower world Rope to lower world Descent to lower world on animal
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Door to otherworld. (Cf. F91.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Resuscitation my frightening dead. Frequently combined with E61 Resuscitation by music Resuscitation by breathing on corpse Death thought sleep. Resuscitated person thinks he has been sleeping. He exclaims, "How long I have been asleep!" Swallowed person becomes bald Cliff-ogre. Kicks victims over cliff Rectum snakes. Snakes which creep into living man and devour him Pot-tilter. Ogre who tilts a pot so that victims are drawn into it Sucking monster. Giant (sometimes a giant hall or cave) sucks in victims Man with fire moccasins. They set fire to surroundings Killing trees threaten hero Place and conditions of childbirth

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