μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
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.

  • Irish myth*Cross.
Within the index

Filed under Other tests of truth.

1 finer motif beneath it
Incantation which when recited over certain "lots" causes them to distinguish between guilt and innocence
Filed beside it
Worn-out shoes as proof of long journeyCredential tests: proof that messenger comes from certain personNature fruitless if false judgment is passedPerson magically disfigured when he speaks falselyTest of death: to see whether person is dead or feigningTest of truth by magic objectAct of truth. Person asserts a thing as true declaring: "If my words are true, may this or that happen."Oaths before gods as test of truthTest: which of twins is elder. Younger unthinkingly hands chopsticks to elder and thus betrays his junior rankTest of innocence: apple and gold offered. Innocent person takes appleHoliness of saint tested: asked to perform miraclesGold in the Bible. A man professes to be a great Bible reader. King leaves a piece of money in the Bible. On his next visit it is still thereTest of sinFootsteps in manure (dust) as proof that dead man has walked

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