μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 18references

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 103, MacCulloch Eddic 320
  • BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "puits"
  • French CanadianBarbeau JAFL XXIX 25
  • GreekFox 88, 143
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • KoreanZong in-Sob 167
  • MarquesasHandy 110
  • MaoriClark 100
  • Eskimo (Labrador)Hawkes GSCan XV 153
  • AfricaWerner African 175, 184, 195.
  • general *Type 301
  • general *BP II 300ff.
  • general Penzer VI 108f.
  • general *Siuts Jenseitsmotive 50
  • general *Roberts 140. Irish myth: Cross (F158), Beal XXI 311, 324, 329, O'Suilleabhain 33, 91
  • general Gaster Thespis 183f.
  • general S. Am. Indian (Tereno): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (1) 367
Within the index

Filed under Access to lower world.

7 finer motifs beneath it
Visit to lower world through hole made by lifting clumps of grassPerson swallowed up by earth and taken to lower worldVisit to lower world through opening rocks. Rocks open with a charmEntrance to lower world through mountainEntrance to lower world by making hole in groundEntrance to lower world through caveHole to underworld kingdom of snakes
Filed beside it
Door (gate) entrance to lower worldWater entrance to lower worldStair to lower worldPath to lower worldRope to lower worldDescent to lower world on animal
Travels with
Pit entrance to otherworld. (Cf. F92.)
Carried in tale types

wander