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 87
  • general BP II 358.
Within the index

Filed under Riddles of the superlative.

2 finer motifs beneath it
What is softest? The hand. (In order to lie soft one places his hand between the head and the pillow.)What is softest? Mother's bosom
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 the hardest?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?
Carried in tale types

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