μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

The choice of roads. At parting of three roads are equivocal inscriptions telling what will happen if each is chosen. Brothers each choose a different road.

Chance and fate. · The ways of luck and fate. · Nature of luck and fate. · Determination of luck or fate. · view the constellation · filed as N122.0.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • general Köhler-Bolte I 537ff.
  • general India Thompson-Balys.
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Filed under Lucky or unlucky places.

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Unlucky places

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