μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

  • EnglishWells 151 (Richard Coer de Lyon)
  • Italian NovellaRotunda
  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general Penzer II 113
Within the index
4 finer motifs beneath it
Relative's flesh eaten unwittinglyMurderer caused to eat victim's flesh unwittingly. Sickens and diesUnwitting cannibalism: scavenger in wedding feast finds basket of noses put there by hero and thinks it full of meatHuman flesh being cooked speaks out
Travels with
Accidental cannibalism. A man eats up the dried meat of a Jew on shipboard. It happens that the Jew is carrying his dead father back home for burial in this form. (Cf. G60.)
Carried in tale types

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