μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Ground opens and swallows up person.

Marvels. · Extraordinary occurrences. · Extraordinary underground (underwater) disappearance. · view the constellation · filed as F942.1

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Filed under Man sinks into earth.

1 finer motif beneath it
Ground opens to hide fugitive
Filed beside it
Ground cut from under adversary Earth opens at man's command
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Escape by intervention of Providence. (Cf. F942.1.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Bag of winds. Wind is confined in a bag. Man breaks prohibition against looking into bag and releases winds Transformation: man to swine Transformation: woman to bitch Transformation: man to dove Transformation: man (woman) to almond tree Transformation by drinking Disenchantment from tree form by embrace of lover Moly: magic plant Magic lotus plant. (Cf. D975.1.) Magic drink Magic chair Lotus causes forgetfulness. (Cf. D965.6, D2004.3.)

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