μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
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.

  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • India*Thompson-Balys.
  • general *Cosquin Contes Indiens 126f.
  • general Hdwb. d. Märchens II 63 s. v. Fatalismus
Within the index

Filed under Nature of luck and fate.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Inexorable fate: no day without sorrow. A king, who has made decree against sorrow on a certain day is blinded by a swallow in his sleepInexorable fate: death from violating tabus. (Cf. C920.)Man cannot die: snake will not bite him though it is provoked by him. (Cf. N146.)Man fated to become king becomes so despite fact he breaks his tooth in which his luck resides. (Cf. N113.2.2.)
Filed beside it
Fortune comes to deserving and undeserving
Carried in tale types

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