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

  • Irish myth*Cross.
  • general *BP III 201ff.
  • general *Hibbard 205 n. 9
Within the index
11 finer motifs beneath it
Deception by legerdemainCamouflageDeception by sham blood. By stabbing bag of blood (or otherwise) trickster makes dupe think that he is bleedingAbsent person seems to be presentIllusory enemiesIllusion of deathDead made to appear aliveIllusions in landscapeIllusory soundsIllusory lightOther illusions
Travels with
Illusory transformation of animals in order to sell and cheat. (Cf. D2031, K1870.)

wander