μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

  • IrishBeal XXI 336, O'Suilleabhain 122
  • SpanishEspinosa Jr. Nos. 181, 201
  • ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 256f.
  • general *Types 676, 1535
  • general *Hdwb. d. Märchens I 187b
Within the index

Filed under The unpromising surpasses the promising.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Poor girl chosen as wife in preference to richPoor suitor makes good husband; rich suitor cruel
Filed beside it
Stupid person surpasses cleverPupil surpasses masterIgnorant surpasses learned manUgly preferred to pretty sisterNeglected surpasses favorite childTardy surpasses punctualSlowness surpasses hastePeasant girl outwits princeDaughter succeeds on quest where son failsScorning stops when it turns out that the scorned has saved the king by fighting alone against fourDisagreeable and disliked child surpasses the likeable oneUnpromising hero kills those who scorn him

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