μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 17references

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.

  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • Spanish ExemplaKeller
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • ChineseGraham
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 491
  • TahitiHenry Ancient Tahiti (Honolulu, 1928) 614
  • TuamotuStimson MS (T-G. 3/403, 615)
  • Easter IslandMétraux Ethnology 383
  • PolynesianDixon 41
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 327 n. 185, (California): Gayton and Newman 74
  • Africa (Jaunde)Heepe 262, (Fang): Tessman 107, (Zanzibar): Bateman 155ff. No. 8, (Ekoi): Talbot 207, 259, 355, (Fjort): Dennett 65 No. 13, (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 171 No. 34
  • Cape Verde IslandsParsons MAFLS XV (1) 110f. No. 39.
  • general *Types 326, 402, 471, 513, 550, 551, 554, 569, 570, 571, 577, 580, 610, 935, 1650. See also references under each of these type entries in FFC LXXIV. *Hdwb. d. Märchens I 186a
  • general Malone PMLA XLIII 398f.
  • general *A. Christensen Danske Studier (1916) 46ff.
  • general Chauvin II 115 No. 88. Irish myth: Cross
Within the index
9 finer motifs beneath it
Name of victorious youngest sonAbused son of younger co-wife becomes heroFortunate youngest son. Always has good luckFavorite youngest sonCompassionate youngest son. Kind to people or animals: rewardedStupid youngest son becomes cleverYoungest brother helps elderOnly the youngest brother helps his sister perform dangerous taskYounger brother given birthright of elder
Carried in tale types

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