μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

  • India*Thompson-Balys.
  • general *Types 360, 1697
  • general BP II 561ff.
  • general Wesselski Mönchslatein 37 No. 44
Within the index

Filed under Other vows and oaths.

Filed beside it
Vow not to eat before hearing of adventureVow not to go to bed with wife till enemy is killedVow to perform act of prowessVow to watch at frightful place all nightVow to ride the forest all night and slay all comersVow never to refuse food to any manVow never to flee in fear of deathVow not to be killed by a single opponentVow never to make a nocturnal assaultBard vows that none of his profession will make a request of any manVow to ask nobody for peace, grace. (Cf. M161.4.)Other vows about fightingVow to serve only the most generous of all kingsVow not to devastate country or take revenge after releaseVow never to accept a man who does not know any sportVow not to touch certain thing
Carried in tale types

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