μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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
  • MaoriClark 160
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 230
  • TuamotuStimson MS (T-G. 3/931).
  • general Oceanic (New Zealand, Tahiti, Mangaia, Hawaii, Melanesia, Micronesia, Indonesia): Dixon 46, 59, 65
Within the index

Filed under Means of hoodwinking the guardian or owner.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Blind Dupe. A blind man's arrow is aimed for him by his mother (or wife) who deceives him into thinking that he has missed his aim. She eats the slain game herselfTheft from three old women who have but a single eye among them. The hero seizes their eyeBuzzard steals coyote's eyes, while he is throwing them up in the airBlind beggar overheard telling that his money is kept in a stick. Thief exchanges sticksTheft by blinding with pepper
Filed beside it
Man gulled into giving up his clothesGoods stolen while owner sleepsTheft by making owner drunkOwner gives up goods through flatteryThief frightens owner from goodsHouse filled with smoke so that owner gives trickster lodgingOversalting food of giant so that he must go outside for water. Meantime his goods are stolenThief ties owner's hair while he escapes with goodsOwner's interest distracted while goods are stolenThief as umpire in contest. Three men are quarreling over the possession of a rescued girl. The umpire will give her to the one who soonest returns with the arrow he shoots. While they run, he takes the girlThief advises owner to go away; meantime steals the goodsOwner persuaded that his goods are spoiled. (Cf. K355.)Sympathetic helper robbedThief trusted to guard goodsCozening. Trickster's claim of relationship causes owner to relax vigilance. Goods stolenTrickster causes owner and another to fight over goods. Meantime he steals it

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