μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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 124ff.
  • general Köhler-Bolte I 85, 87.
Within the index

Filed under King: What is your mother doing? Youth: She does for another what the latter cannot do for her. (Lays out a corpse.)

Filed beside it
King: What is your mother doing? Youth: She shows the light of the world to one who has not yet seen it. (Assists at a birth.)King: What is your mother doing? Youth: She cuts off the heads of the well to cure the sick. (Kills chickens to feed her sick mother.)King: What is your mother doing? Youth: She drives away the hungry and compels the filled to eat. (Drives away the hungry hens and stuffs the geese.)King: What are your mother and father doing? Girl: Mother is separating earth (being a midwife), and father is mixing earth (at a funeral)King: What is your mother doing? Girl: She has gone to turn one into two (to split peas)
Travels with
King: What is your father doing? Youth: Cuts wood which was burnt last year. (To pay old debts.)
Carried in tale types

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