μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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 mythCross
  • JapaneseIkeda.
Within the index

Filed under Superhuman tasks.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Task: building bridge over land and seaDevil as suitor assigned task to build bridge or dam
Filed beside it
Task: recovering lost objectsTask: building castle (fort)Task: annihilating (overcoming) army single-handedTask: bringing winds from the whole worldTask: binding waves of the seaTask: supplying water in land where it is lackingTask: eating enormous amountTask: drinking enormous amountTask: dipping out the sea with a spoon: countertask: stop all the rivers. (Cf. H1113., H1142.3.)Task: measuring oceanTasks: other difficult measurementsTask: carrying mountain on headTask: making ladder which whole army cannot set upMiscellaneous superhuman tasks
Travels with
Suitor test: building causeway. (Cf. H1131.)

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