μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

  • IcelandicBoberg
  • JapaneseIkeda
  • Jamaica*Beckwith MAFLS XVII 247 No. 23, 267 No. 75, 279 Nos. 92, 93
  • West IndiesFlowers 564.
  • general *Type 500
  • general *Clodd Tom-Tit-Tot
  • general *Polivka Zs. f. Vksk. X 254ff.
  • general *Von Sydow Två Spinnsagor
Within the index

Filed under Secrets overheard.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Secret age overheard by eavesdropper. Man masking as cuckoo in tree causes the surprised ogre to disclose secretSecret reason why hero does not want to eat the food of the foreign king overheard by eavesdropper
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 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 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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