μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

  • India*Thompson-Balys. Cf. Shakespeare's King Lear.
  • general *Type 923
  • general *BP III 305 n. 2, IV 407
  • general *Hartland FLJ IV 309
  • general *DeCock Studien en Essays 4f.
  • general Cosquin Contes Indiens 103ff.
  • general Köhler Aufsätze 14
Within the index

Filed under Enigmatic statement made clear by experience.

1 finer motif beneath it
"Love like wind in hot sun." Husband offended but later learns wife's meaning
Filed beside it
Poison in nectar: wife who betrays husband to his enemiesNectar in poison: mistress who saves her loverDogs in human shape: friends who seduce man's wifeDonkey ruling a kingdom: king condemning man unjustly
Carried in tale types

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