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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • Africa (Angola)Chatelain 167, 173, (Kaffir): Theal 100, (Basuto): Jacottet 260 No. 38
  • American Negro (Georgia)Harris Nights 314 No. 54.
Within the index

Filed under Relative's flesh eaten unwittingly.

1 finer motif beneath it
Girl avoids eating her mother's flesh by spilling the meat and the soup in the pen
Filed beside it
Mother recognizes child's flesh when it is served to be eaten

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