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 BP III 16.
Within the index

Filed under Riddles of the superlative.

2 finer motifs beneath it
What is hardest? Parent's heart (said by child being sacrificed)What is the hardest? Death
Filed beside it
Riddle: what is the strongest?Riddle: what is the swiftest?Riddle: what is sweetest?Riddle: what is the sweetest song?Riddle: what is the sweetest sound?Riddle: what is the richest?Riddle: what is costliest?Riddle: what is most beautiful?Riddle: what is highest?Riddle: what is deepest?Riddle: what is longest?Riddle: what is the heaviest?Riddle: what is greenest?Riddle: what is the most beloved?Riddle: what is best?Riddle: what is brightest?
Travels with
Riddle: what is harder than stone? (Cf. H637.)
Carried in tale types

wander