μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • CheremisSebeok-Nyerges.
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Filed under Fate decided before birth.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Spirit of new-born child in uniform. God has determined fates of everyoneNew-born child with a weapon and a game animal: fated to be hunter
Filed beside it
Death forestalls evil fates. Mother shown what would have been the evil fates of her children if they had not diedNewborn girl fated to be a courtesanSeventh daughter predestined to be magician. (Cf. Z71.5.)

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