μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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 mythCross
  • JewishNeuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Prophecies concerning love and marriage.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Prophecy of king taking a cruel stepmother to her sons after her death enacted before eyes of dying queen by sparrow family living in tree by palace windowProphecy: princess will marry a bastard
Filed beside it
Prophecy: lovers not destined to meet in life will never part after deathProphecy: marriage when one is twelve years oldProphecy: if the raja marries certain girl he will prosperProphecy: descendant of mistress shall serve that of handmaid

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