μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 8references

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
  • IcelandicBoberg
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 427, 458.
  • general *BP II 370
  • general Hdwb. d. Märchens I 435b n. 150
  • general Frazer Old Testament II 564
  • general Child I 405
  • general *De Vries FFC LXXIII 43ff.
Within the index

Filed under Propounding of riddles.

1 finer motif beneath it
King and rabbi exchange riddles
Filed beside it
Supernatural creatures propound riddles. (See also H541.1.1, H543, G681.)Queen propounds riddlesKing propounds riddlesSaint as propounder of riddlesBridegroom propounds riddles at wedding feastRiddle propounded with penalty for failureDeath sentence escaped by propounding riddle king (judge) cannot solveEscape from devil by answering his riddlesAnswers found in other world to riddles propounded on wayPrincess offered to man who can out-riddle herMan marries girl who guesses his riddlesSolvers of riddlesInscription on home of riddle-solver "I have no care."Riddle propounded from chance experience. On way to riddle trial youth sees things that give him a clue for his riddles
Travels with
Riddles sent to Solomon by King Hiram. (Cf. H548.)

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