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.

  • Irish mythCross
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • N. Am. Indian (Seneca)Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 234 No. 46.
Within the index

Filed under Contest won by deception – general.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Relative substitutes in contestYoung knight substitutes for old man in tournamentWoman substitutes for husband in combatWise man disguised as monk beats learned heretic in debate
Filed beside it
Contest won by magicAnimals help man in contestContest with magician won by deception

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