μῦθοι Mythoi
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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.

  • Italian NovellaRotunda.
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Filed under Accidental death – miscellaneous.

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Man falls into jar of honey and is drowned. Chases a mouseFlies caught in honey. Death from greedFoxes crowd into house and are suffocatedUxorious king is burned to death while taking an alcohol bathMan forgets to wear magic gown and is killedArmy drowned by unnoticed incoming tideAccidental death from fall on own weapon (shield)Girl abducted by fairy left on shore, where she is accidentally drownedYouth gazing at own image reflected in water falls and drownsGirl lets down her sari for hero to climb up by but, when he is halfway up, sari breaks and he is killedPrefect, cursed by bishop, dies of fish-bone stuck in his throatAccidental death by striking head against lintel of doorWife throwing husband's corpse into river (according to custom) is caught by corpse's arm and drownedThief crushed to death by fallen fragments of wall he has boredKing mortally wounded on killed enemy's toothBottle wherein jinn is imprisoned inadvertently opened and jinn escapes to kill his captor

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