μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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
  • Africa (Kaffir)Theal 188, (Basuto): Jacottet 40
  • American Negro (Georgia)Harris Nights 286 No. 48.
  • general Chauvin II 116 No. 94
Within the index

Filed under "Wait till I get fat." Captured person (animal) persuades his captor to wait and fatten him before eating him.

1 finer motif beneath it
"Wait till men come to take me from trap, then eat them."
Filed beside it
"Wait till I am fat enough to race you." Hero to be eaten by cannibals when he is fattened enough to beat them in a race. He runs awayCalf: "Wait till I grow up."Wait for the fat goat. Troll lets the first two goats pass on the bridge so that he may eat the biggest one. He is thrown in the waterRam promises to jump into wolf's belly. Gives him a hard knock. The stunned wolf thinks he has swallowed the ram. (Cf. K579.5.1.)Wolf is requested by horse to start eating from the rear; kicked to death"Soak me in the pond so that I will be juicy."Too dirty to eat. Trickster, cornered by leopard, leaps into swamp, then says he is too dirty to eat. Leopard smells of him and agrees
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