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.

  • Irish myth*Cross
  • EstonianAarne FFC XXV 136 No. 96
  • Spanish ExemplaKeller.
  • general *Jackson The Motive of the Threefold Death in the Story of Suibhne Geilt (Essays and Studies Presented to Eoin MacNeill 535–550)
Within the index

Filed under Prophecy: death by particular instrument. In spite of all precautions the prophecy is fulfilled.

Filed beside it
Prophecy: death by particular weaponProphecy: death by mistletoeProphecy: death by stormProphecy: death by drowningProphecy: death by horse's head. Man is killed in that wayProphecy: death by wolf. Killed by a wolf claw (or by a cat transformed to wolf)Prophecy: death by fireProphecy: death by poisonProphecy: death from hands of man with one sandalProphecy: death from bite of stone lion. Man killed by scorpion concealed in the statueProphecy: death by lightningProphecy: death through future husbandProphecy: death through spindle woundProphecy: death by means of boneProphecy: death at hands of man bearing a certain nameProphecy: death from thorns in rice
Carried in tale types

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