μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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
  • IcelandicBoberg
  • India*Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Quest for lost persons.

1 finer motif beneath it
Quest for lost grandfather
Filed beside it
Unspelling quest: journey to disenchant (free) captivesQuest for stolen princessQuest for vanished daughterQuest for vanished wife (mistress)Quest for vanished husbandQuest for vanished lover. (Cf. H1381.2.1.1.)Quest for lost sisterQuest 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
Mother sends son to find unknown father. (Cf. H1385.7.)

wander