μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Sparrows of Cirencester. Fire is attached to birds who fly in and set fire to a besieged city.

Deceptions. · Other deceptions. · Military strategy. · view the constellation · filed as K2351.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Icelandic Boberg.
  • general **Krappe MPh XXIII 7ff.
  • general **DeVries Arkiv för Nordisk Filologi XLVII 66ff.
  • general Stender-Petersen Edda Nordisk Tidsskrift f. Litteraturforskning 1929, 145–64
  • general Herrmann Saxo II 93
  • general *Liebrecht 109f.
Within the index

Filed under Animals help in military victory.

1 finer motif beneath it
Fire tied to foxes' tails: destroys enemy's cities and fields
Filed beside it
Bees thrown into redoubt drive out enemies Mice and hogs let loose put elephant cavalry to flight Elephant drunk with toddy sent to attack enemy Horses frightened by instruments of war are backed into enemy's ranks Wild horses with bags containing stones tied to their tails, driven into enemy's camp to cause stampede Wild fawn sent by saint into hostile army, so that all follow it and leader (enemy of saint) is slain Strategy to get into enemy city: huge rat makes a burrow

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