μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 11references

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.

  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera I 1144
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 19ff.
  • IndonesiaDeVries's list No. 23
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 300 n. 97
  • S. Am. Indian (Chiriguano)Métraux RMLP XXXIII 179
  • Africa (Basuto)Jacottet 44 No. 5, (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 388 No. 14, (Zulu): Callaway 24, (Kaffir): Theal 111, (Benga): Nassau 125 No. 12
  • American Negro (Georgia)Harris Nights 344 No. 60.
  • general *Type 37
  • general *Dh IV 247
  • general Krohn Bär (Wolf) und Fuchs (JSFO VI) 93ff.
Within the index

Filed under Treacherous murder of enemy's children or charges.

1 finer motif beneath it
Trickster employed to educate baby crocodiles: he eats them instead
Filed beside it
Trickster pollutes nest and brood of birdTrickster eats all of tiger's cubs but one. Counts that one many times and deceives tigerFox as shepherd. A woman in search of a shepherd tries the voices of applicants. The wolf and the bear are rejected, the fox accepted
Carried in tale types

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