μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • Irish myth*Cross
  • India*Thompson-Balys.
Within the index
3 finer motifs beneath it
Unpromising hero (male Cinderella). Usually, but not always, the unpromising hero is also the youngest sonUnpromising heroine. Usually, but not always, the youngest daughterUnpromising hero given great powers by deity
Travels with
Unpromising hero as rescuer. (Cf. L100.)

wander