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.

  • LithuanianBalys Index No. *66
  • RussianAndrejev No. *64.
Within the index

Filed under Numskull gets his head caught. (Cf. J2136.6.)

Filed beside it
Trickster puts on buffalo skull: gets head caughtNumskull licks out pot: gets it caught on his headNumskull sticks his head in the branches of a treeNumskull sticks his head into the hole of a millstone. It rolls into the lakeWolf trying to catch tongue of camel puts head in camel's mouth: killedJackal's head caught in pot of blue dye. Animals make him king, but detect him from his cry and turn him out
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