μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • Africa (Basuto)Kidd The Bull of the Kraal and the Heavenly Maidens (London, 1908) 51ff. No. 1.
Within the index

Filed under Hero (heroine) of unpromising appearance.

1 finer motif beneath it
Leper hero
Filed beside it
Monster as heroVery small heroDeformed child as heroDirty boy as hero"Burnt-belly" as hero"Scar-face" as heroLame child as heroUgly child becomes great poetOne-armed heroHeroine born with pigeon's head

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