μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 10references

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.

  • Irish myth*Cross
  • IcelandicCorpus Poeticum Boreale I 358
  • India*Thompson-Balys.
  • general *Type 670
  • general **Aarne FFC XV 31ff.
  • general Wesselski Mönchslatein 93 No. 153
  • general Wesselski Archiv Orientální I 82
  • general Krappe Revue Celtique XLVIII 401ff.
  • general *Schoepperle I 198 n. 1
  • general *Penzer I 46 n. 2
Within the index

Filed under Secrets overheard.

Filed beside it
Secrets overheard from animal (demon) conversationSecret remedy overheard in conversation of animals (witches)Man transformed as ant, learns secret of freeing princessConversation of objects overheardOverheard (human) conversationSecret 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
Travels with
Prophecy from enigmatical laugh. (Cf. N456.)
Carried in tale types

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