μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 24references

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.

  • ScotchMacdougall and Calder 235 ("glastig")
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • LappishHartland Science 173
  • Finnish-SwedishWessman 81ff. Nos. 673–739
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • ArabianBurton Nights I 28, 76, 333, II 233–238, VI 158, 242n., VIII 131, S VI 325ff., 452
  • India*Thompson-Balys, Penzer X 362 s. v. "Witch"
  • MonoWheeler 45
  • PapuaKer 21, 31, 68
  • TuamotuStimson MS (z-G. 13/499)
  • S. Am. Indian (Toba)Métraux MAFLS XL 77, (Araucanian): Alexander Lat. Am. 328
  • Africa*Werner African 333ff., (Basuto): Jacottet 236 No. 34.
  • general *Types 405, 432, 442, 708, 710, 711
  • general **Kittredge Witchcraft
  • general *Vordemfelde Die Hexe im deutschen Volksmärchen (Mogk Festschrift 588)
  • general *Fb "heks" IV 206a
  • general Hansen Zauberwahn, Inquisition und Hexenprozess im Mittelalter (München and Leipzig, 1900), ibid. Quellen und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des Hexenwahns und der Hexenverfolgung in den österr. Alpenländern (1934)
  • general Hdwb. d. Abergl. III 1827–1920
  • general R. F. Fortune Sorcerers of Dobu (London, 1932)
  • general M. Am. Murray The Witch-Cult in Western Europe (Oxford, 1921)
  • general M. Summers The History of Witchcraft and Demonology (London, 1926)
  • general *Arne Runeberg Witches, Demons and Fertility Magic (Helsinki, 1947)
  • general A. Mayer Erdmutter und Hexe (München, 1936)
  • general *Hoffman-Krayer Zs. f. Vksk. XXV 117. – Irish myth: *Cross
Within the index
7 finer motifs beneath it
Three witch sisters. Sometimes simply three hagsBeneficent witchesOrigin of witchesGirl in service of witchWitch stepmotherWitch has (three) giant sonsMale witch
Travels with
Bewitching. (Cf. D5, G200.)Transformation: man to witch. (Cf. G200.)Witches in wild hunt. (Cf. G200.)Rescue of maidens from witches. (Cf. G200.)

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