μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • IrishBeal XXI 314, O'Suilleabhain 38
  • LithuanianBalys Index Nos. 329ff., Legends Nos. 505–524.
  • general Wünsche Teufel 71f.
Within the index

Filed under The devil hires out.

1 finer motif beneath it
The devil takes service with a farmer in return for the bread he stole. Punishes the evil landowner and makes his master prosperous
Filed beside it
Devil is employed as a midwifeDevils help people at work, but are feared neverthelessThe devil is always to blame. Even when he tries to be helpful to man

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