μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Quest for Water of Life (water which will resuscitate).

Tests. · Tests of prowess: quests. · Nature of quests. · Quest for marvelous objects or animals. · view the constellation · filed as H1321.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Italian Novella Rotunda
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Hawaii Beckwith Myth 72, 257.
  • general *Types 550, 707
  • general *BP II 394
  • general MacCulloch Childhood 52ff.
Within the index

Filed under Quest for marvelous water.

Filed beside it
Quest for healing water Quest for the water of youth Quest for dancing water Quest for singing water
Carried in tale types

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “resuscitate” · wander