μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.
Within the index

Filed under Miscellaneous superhuman tasks.

Filed beside it
Task: yoking together lion and wild boarTask: lifting a certain cat. (Is serpent that embraces the earth.)Task: defeating a certain old woman. (She is Old Age.)Task: collecting enormous amount of material (number of rare objects, etc.)Task: breaking pigeon's egg on parapet of castle. Pigeon in ferocious serpentTask: drawing spear thrust through seven iron platesGirl to bring cloth as long as river and raise pig as big as mountain. (Countertask: measure river and weigh mountain.)Task: lifting mountain. Countertask: placing it on my shouldersTask: jumping across river in one bound

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