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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Tests of endurance.

Filed beside it
Endurance test: long dancing. Girl tires out many partnersTest: 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: 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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