μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • India*Thompson-Balys.
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Filed under Life saved by accident.

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Pet swan saves self by singing death song. Master about to mistake the swan in the dark for the goose that is to be slaughteredNut falls and wakes man about to be bitten by snakeChild falls from cliff; uninjuredHero catches spear hurled at him and kills serpent with itWaves break caul of abandoned child. He is rescuedWarriors discover in the last moment that it is their own chief they are about to murder by burningHusband arrives home just in time to save wife and her father from being burned to death in their homeLife saved by accident – miscellaneous
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