μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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 mythCross
  • HinduTawney I 86 n., 196, 357, II 57, 71, 606
  • ArabianBurton Nights V 144, IX 325.
Within the index

Filed under Tests of character.

7 finer motifs beneath it
Fidelity of servant testedTest of fidelity (loyalty) of guard. (Faithful unto death.)Test of fidelity by feigning deathTest of fidelity through submitting hero to temptationsTest of fidelity through offering suspected assassin opportunity to commit the murderFidelity in love testedTest of fidelity by feigning sleep in same bed as calumniated hero or alone in the forest with him
Filed beside it
Bad character shown by the eyesTests of generosityTests of patienceTest of curiosity. (Cf. H1557.)Tests of honestyTests of obedienceTests of friendshipTests of valorTest of strengthTest of skillTest of hospitalityTests of gratitudeTest for admission to warrior bandTest of leadershipTest of the championTests of character – miscellaneous

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