μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • West IndiesFlowers 438.
Within the index

Filed under Marvelous cures.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Thread under dumb man's tongue cut. This permits him to speakDumbness cured by questionFainting brings recovery of speechChilli plant so hot it causes dumb man to speak: thus discovered for eatingPerson made to speak by warning of danger
Filed beside it
Sickness cured by napkin of VeronicaExtreme anger as cure for sickness. (Cf. F955.)Measuring sick as means of cureSickness (madness) cured by coitionExtreme fear as cure for sicknessSucking through tubes heals wounds. (Cf. F959.3.)Marvelous cure without seeing personPrincess cured by seeing her lost lover danceHealing by sprinkling water and replacing fleshBlindness miraculously curedCripple marvelously curedMiraculous cure for leprosy. Rage at hearing for first time of Christ's passion causes cure. (Cf. F950.3.)Extraordinary diagnosisCure by physician's imitating sick man's actionsMountebank undertakes to bring the city's incurables back to health. Effects marvelous curesMarvelous cures – miscellaneous
Travels with
Silent wife brought to speech by dangers to her husband. (Cf. F954.)

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