μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • EnglishChild II 102–110, IV 214f.
  • West IndiesFlowers 471.
Within the index

Filed under Tests of endurance.

Filed beside it
Test: enduring hardship. Tested by making girl serve woman who has leprosy, etcEndurance test: scalding mush scattered on heroine's naked body; rasp-tongued dogs lick woundsTest: sleeping naked on floor in cold. (Suitor test.)Test: sewing clothes into boy's hands and tearing them off together with the skinEndurance test: hero maintains silence in the snake pitHero pursues and kills fugitive in spite of bleeding woundsTest: long praying

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