μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Watch mistaken for the devil's eye. Knocked to pieces.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd misunderstandings. · One thing mistaken for another. · Things thought to be devils, ghosts, etc. · view the constellation · filed as J1781.2

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • LithuanianBalys Index No. 1679*.
  • general Type 1321*
  • general Christensen DF XLVII 187
Within the index

Filed under Objects thought to be the devil.

Filed beside it
Steamship thought to be the devilGlowing wheel supposed to be the devil
Carried in tale types

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