μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 14references

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.

  • IcelandicCorpus Poeticum Boreale I 131, 144, Boberg
  • Italian NovellaRotunda, Basile Pentamerone IV No. 9
  • GreekGrote I 105
  • JewishNeuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 1138
  • ChineseGraham
  • JapaneseIkeda
  • KoreanZong in-Sob 150, 155.
  • general *Types 516, 517, 670, 673
  • general BP I 42ff., 131f.
  • general **Aarne FFC XV
  • general **Rösch FFC LXXVII 102, 114
  • general Penzer I 48, III 60
Within the index

Filed under Secrets overheard.

1 finer motif beneath it
Secrets of animals (demons) accidentally overheard from tree (bridge) hiding place
Filed beside it
Secret remedy overheard in conversation of animals (witches)Man transformed as ant, learns secret of freeing princessConversation of objects overheardOverheard (human) conversationEnigmatical smile (laugh) reveals secret knowledgeSecret physical peculiarity discovered by barber. (Midas.)Daughter lousing mother weeps and reveals secretKing in disguise to learn secrets of his subjectsNewborn babe reveals secret; then becomes silentFoolish attempt of second man to overhear secrets (from animals, demons etc.). He is punishedSecret name overheard by eavesdropperSecret of unique vulnerability disclosedSecret wealth betrayed by money left in borrowed money-scalesSecret escapes with man's bloodSecret learned by tortureGiant unwittingly reveals span of life to dwarf, who is thus emboldened to attack him
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