μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 6references

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
  • LithuanianBalys Index No. 3591
  • Spanish ExemplaKeller
  • GreekFox 50 (Oedipus), Grote I 247
  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general Penzer IV 230 n. 2
Within the index

Filed under Deliverer of curse.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Curse by stepmother. (Cf. S31.)Curse by foster mother
Filed beside it
Curse by oneself. The person in despair curses himself to sink with palace into the earthBeggar's curse. Beggar is refused request. "May your bread turn to stones!"Dying man's curseMan pursued by hatred of the godsOld woman's curse (satire)Druid's curseCurse by spiritSaint's (prophet's) curseGiantess lays a curse on the one on earth who eventually hears herCurse by berserk, giant (ogre)Curse by girl in revenge of the murdering of her foster fatherCurse by witch. (Cf. G269.4.)Curse by thrallCurse by priestCurse by monkFairy lays curse on village
Travels with
Mother curses her unborn child. (Cf. M411.1.)
Carried in tale types

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