μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.
Within the index

Filed under Fear test. A person is put to various tests in the attempt to make him show fear.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Chief of dead assumes frightful guises to frighten visitorsOgress assumes frightful guises to frighten messengers
Filed beside it
Fear 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

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