μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 6references

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
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • Spanish ExemplaKeller
  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general *Penzer VIII 195 n. 3, 196 n.
  • general Basset RTP VII 284, 615, VIII 20, 431, 561
Within the index

Filed under Ordeal by fire. Suspected person must pass through or jump over fire to determine guilt or innocence.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Ordeal: virgin to pull on hot iron and name men. Only with guilty will she and he be burntOrdeal by red-hot iron applied by druids
Filed beside it
Ordeal by burning coalOrdeal by burning oilOrdeal by boiling waterOrdeal by spitting. Extinguishing fire is proof of innocence

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