μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 8references

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 myth*Cross
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • HinduTawney I 407ff.
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • ChineseGraham
  • OceanicDixon 70–72 (New Zealand, Mangaia, Nieue, Chatham Island, Hawaii, New Britain, Admiralty Islands), 139 (New Hebrides), 220 (Indonesia), De Vries's list No. 221 (Indonesia)
  • Eskimo (Greenland)Rasmussen I 222, III 75, Rink 145, (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 180.
  • general *Type 400
Within the index

Filed under Quest for lost persons.

1 finer motif beneath it
Quest for vanished wife and son. Husband seeks wife and son in many countries
Filed beside it
Unspelling quest: journey to disenchant (free) captivesQuest for stolen princessQuest for vanished daughterQuest for vanished husbandQuest for vanished lover. (Cf. H1381.2.1.1.)Quest for lost sisterQuest for lost father. (Cf. H1216.)Quest for lost brother(s)Quest for lost (stolen) familyQuest for lost prince (king)Quest for lost unclesKing in quest of his prime minister who has left him in anger
Travels with
Husband rescues stolen wife. (Cf. H1385.3, R11.1.)
Carried in tale types

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