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 *Type 950
  • general *BP III 395ff.
Within the index

Filed under Pseudo-scientific methods of detecting.

1 finer motif beneath it
Mother's weeping for thief made to seem natural
Filed beside it
Test of mother by weighing milk. The one with the heavier milk the mother of the boy; the other of the girlLove detected by quickening pulse. A woman's adulterous love detected through her pulse quickening at mention of her loverAdultery detected by spit marks on the wall. Too high to have been made by husband
Carried in tale types

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