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.

  • general N. Am. Indian (Shoshoni): Lowie JAFL XXXVII 237 No. 18, (Pawnee): Dorsey MAFLS VIII 178 No. 45, (Gros Ventre): Kroeber PaAM I 80 No. 19.
Within the index

Filed under Suitor contests: bride offered as prize.

Filed beside it
Suitor contest: difficult ridingSuitor contest: tournamentSuitor contest: prize to one whose staff blooms. Told of Joseph in contest for Virgin MarySuitor contest: shootingSuitor contest: raceSuitor contest: wrestling. (Cf. H1562.9.)Suitor contest: aiming with missileSuitor contest: splitting antlersSuitor contest: carrying one hundred jugs of water from sea to castle in one dayPrincess given to the one confessing all his treacherySuitor contest: splitting block of woodSuitor contest: cheatingSuitor contest: trial of strengthSuitor contest: animal fightSuitor contest: throwing ball up to princessSuitor contest: eating one hundred carcasses at a sitting. (Cf. H1141.)

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