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.

  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Africa (Kaffir)Theal 78.
  • general *Type 550
  • general BP I 503ff., III 33
Within the index

Filed under Quest for remarkable animal.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Quest for Bird of TruthQuest for three feathers of marvelous birdQuest for golden birdQuest for speaking bird. Makes all other birds sing with himQuest for fat of water blackbirds
Filed beside it
Quest for marvelous boar (pig)Quest for marvelous cattleQuest for marvelous horseQuest for marvelous goatQuest for marvelous dogQuest for creature with a single horn mounting to heaven with single red hair on its headQuest for a large-headed wormQuest for sheep that is a hound by night and a sheep by day
Carried in tale types

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