μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 16references

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.

  • RussianAndrejev No. 241 I*
  • BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "coq"
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • JapaneseIkeda
  • Africa (Hottentot)Bleek 23 No. 12
  • American Negro (Georgia)Harris Nights 146 No. 27
  • Cape Verde IslandsParsons MAFLS XV (1) 326 No. 110
  • Jamaica*Beckwith MAFLS XVII 239f. No. 12.
  • general *Type 6
  • general *BP II 207
  • general *Chauvin II 200 No. 39
  • general *Fb "ræv" III 113b
  • general **Dargan MPh IV 39
  • general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 743
  • general *Graf FFC XXXVIII 39f.
  • general *F. N. Robinson Works of Chaucer 858 (Nun's Priest's tale). Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 239*
Within the index

Filed under Escape by persuading captor to talk.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Cat fails to be beguiled into releasing mouse. The mouse tells the cat a tale. The cat answers at last, "Even so, I eat you up."Frog escapes after telling crow to sharpen his bill before eating him
Filed beside it
Attempted escape by persuading captor to talk failsSheep persuade the wolf to sing. Dogs are summonedCrocodile persuaded to open his mouth. When he does, he shuts his eyes automatically and monkey escapes
Travels with
Contest: pulling on steak with teeth. Two men take an end of a steak in their teeth; each attempts to pull it away from the other. After each has a good hold, the Irishman says (with clenched teeth) "Noo're ready?" The Dutchman says, "Yah!", loses the steak. (Cf. K22, K561.1.)
Carried in tale types

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