μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
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.

  • LithuanianBalys Legends Nos. 868–871, 890
  • India*Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Things thought to be devils, ghosts, etc.

8 finer motifs beneath it
Man costumed as demon thought to be devil; thieves fleeWoman thought to be devil; thieves fleeMan mistaken for Famine and Cholera in personPriest exorcising demon mistaken for demon and beaten to deathMan thought to be devil by lionMen, on first seeing wives with hair, think they are witches and run awayLion thinks man astride him is monster: frightenedMan reported to be dead so that people flee from him as from a ghost
Filed beside it
Objects thought to be the devilThings thought to be ghostsThing thought to be corpseThings thought to be spiritsAnimals thought to be the devils or ghostsThings thought at night to be other frightful object

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