μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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
  • RumanianSchullerus FFC LXXVIII No. 886 I*.
  • general See all references to F511.2.2. and D1316.5. Alphabet No. 268
Within the index

Filed under Secrets overheard.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Secret physical blemish revealed by beaten handmaidSecret of person's sleeplessness discovered by trickery
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) conversationEnigmatical smile (laugh) reveals secret knowledgeDaughter 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
Carried in tale types

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