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 *De Vries FFC LXXIII 116ff.
Within the index

Filed under King: What is your father doing? Youth: He is in the vineyard and is doing good and bad. (He prunes vines and sometimes cuts good and sometimes lets bad ones stay.)

Filed beside it
King: What is your father doing? Youth: Makes an evil greater. (Closes up a path; this causes another to be opened.)King: What is your father doing? Youth: Makes many out of few. (Sows grain.)King: What is your father doing? Youth: Makes better from good. (Hedges his field.)King: What is your father doing? Youth: He fences thorns with thorns. (Eggplant garden fenced with thorns.)
Travels with
King: What is your mother doing? Youth: She is baking the bread we ate last week. (To pay back borrowed bread.) (Cf. H583.2.4.)
Carried in tale types

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