μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

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Filed under Substitute in ordeal. An ordeal (usually dangerous) is escaped by deceptively providing a substitute.

Filed beside it
Substitute smoker. The hero is compelled to smoke a fatal pipe, but the helpful insect which he carries on his head smokes the pipe for himEscape by substituting self for another condemned to die. Holy man substitutes self for deacon held by heathen

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