μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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
  • Missouri FrenchCarrière
  • JapaneseIkeda.
  • general *Type 326
  • general *BP I 22ff.
Within the index
5 finer motifs beneath it
Deity assumes frightful guises to frighten childFear test: behaving as if enemy is coming in order to see who will flee and who will stay and fightSuitor tested by apparent threats to his personFear test: serpent put in flour so that fearless youth kneads it into the doughTest: going without fear through a wilderness filled with all manner of beasts
Carried in tale types

wander