μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
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.

  • Irish myth*Cross
  • JewishNeuman.
Within the index

Filed under Extraordinary occurrences connected with rivers.

3 finer motifs beneath it
River dries up for a dayRiver dries up its waters out of sympathyIn dead of night waters of stream cease flowing and stand perfectly still
Filed beside it
River pursues fugitiveRiver arches over saint's body like a vault. (Cf. F931.9.1, V220.)Stream becomes hot in which saint performs his ascetic devotionsWell of oil runs into riverRiver acts as messengerRiver boilsRiver rises and overflowsFord across impassable river created by saintRiver divides into two parts after rape in its bedFirelike waters of river used by strange beings to cook fleshSpeaking river (brook). (Cf. D1614.4, F930.6, F931.11.)

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