μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • JapaneseIkeda.
  • general *Types 408, 450
Within the index

Filed under Treacherous disposal of true bride by false.

2 finer motifs beneath it
True bride lives in fish's bellyTrue bride sits spinning at the bottom of river
Filed beside it
True bride transformed by falseTrue bride's children thrown away at birth (by false bride)
Carried in tale types

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