μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • ChineseGraham.
Within the index

Filed under Miscellaneous quests.

13 finer motifs beneath 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 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
Filed beside it
Impossible questsAllegorical questsEnigmatical questsParadoxical quests. (Cf. H1050.)Quest for unknown personQuest for unknown objects or placesQuest for unknown animalQuest for lost objectQuest: answer to certain questionQuest for armor from a grave moundQuest to distant sage for adviceQuest for person who has not known sorrowHeroes seek judgment as to which is greatest. (Cf. H1311.1.)Quest for light-giving childQuest for enemies
Travels with
Quest for unknown woman. (Cf. H1385, M55.)

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