μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

  • Irish mythCross
  • IcelandicVölsunga saga ch. 11, Boberg
  • LithuanianBalys Index No. *911
  • JewishNeuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • IndonesianDeVries's list No. 230.
  • general *Cosquin Études 85ff.
  • general Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 52
Within the index

Filed under Other means of acquiring wisdom (knowledge).

2 finer motifs beneath it
Wise words of fatherDying saint leaves wise message to followers. Message is cryptic, but is finally made clear
Filed beside it
Wisdom from old personWisdom (knowledge) from sage (teacher)Wisdom from holy manWisdom (knowledge) from womenWisdom from foolsWisdom (knowledge) from dreamWisdom from angelTrial rehearsed before stick in the ground as judgeWisdom acquired by hanging in a treeWisdom purchasedWisdom from GodTree of knowledgeWisdom from booksWisdom from continual reminder of foolishness in the past. Unjust judge skinned and his skin stretched over a footstool kept in the presence of judges, so as to remind them to be justInscription on walls for condensed educationProverbial wisdom: counsels. (Cf. B82.6.)
Travels with
Wise words of dying woman (queen). (Cf. J154.)
Carried in tale types

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