μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 9references

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.

  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys, *Penzer II 31ff., III 179ff., IV 239 n. 3
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera I 23, 96, 151, 490, 531, 707, 832, II 412, 473, 614, 679, 816, 841, 933, 1060, 1098, 1153, 1258.
  • general W. J. Rees Lives of the Cambro-British Saints 193
  • general J. P. Collier Old Shakespeare Society XIV 82
  • general Alphabet Nos. 35, 486
  • general *Burlingame Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (July 1917) 429ff.
  • general Fb "ildebrand" II 13. Irish myth: *Cross
Within the index

Filed under Other tests of truth.

7 finer motifs beneath it
Test: telling true storiesPlacing hand on genitals as test of truthAmount of blood in spittle as test of complete subjection. Incomplete till all is bloodIf oath is false, fruit will fall. (Cf. H251.3.10.)Oath taken on boy's head: boy to die if falseAct of truth: island sinks into sea, after hanging of man who has appealed to God to cause the phenomenon as indication of his innocence. (Cf. F948.)Act of truth: cursed church clock never runs correctly
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 falselyCasting lots as truth testTest of death: to see whether person is dead or feigningTest of truth by magic objectOaths 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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