μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 29references

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.

  • NorwegianSolheim Register 21
  • LithuanianBalys Index No. 509*
  • LivonianLoorits FFC LXVI No. 974(1)
  • RussianAndrejev No. 891*
  • Missouri FrenchCarrière
  • French CanadianBarbeau JAFL XXIX 18
  • SpanishBoggs FFC XC 84, 107 Nos. 750A, 896, Espinosa II Nos. 133–135, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 63, 68
  • Italian Novella*Rotunda
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Indonesiav. Ronkel Catologus der Maleische Handschriften 263
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson CColl 323ff., 334ff.
  • JamaicaBeckwith MAFLS XVII 278 No. 90.
  • general *Types 301, 400, 665
  • general **Splettstösser Der heimkehrende Gatte und sein Weib in der Weltliteratur
  • general *Chauvin V 108 No. 40
  • general **Rajna Romania VI 359ff.
  • general *Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XII 59, XXVIII 74 n. 2
  • general *BP II 318ff., 335ff., IV 168 n. 6
  • general *Huet RTP XXXII 97, 145
  • general *Oesterley No. 193
  • general Deutschbein I 3, 187
  • general Herrmann Saxo II 84f.
  • general *Boje 105, 116
  • general *Child V 488 s. v. "marriage"

Showing a bounded trail of 29 from 29 references.

Within the index

Filed under Lucky accidents – miscellaneous.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Return home to one's own funeralWife finds lost husband just as he is to marry anotherRuler makes ready to abandon barren wife and marry another. He remains with her when he learns that she is with childIncest accidentally avertedSon returns on day his mother is to be married to another (though her husband still lives)
Filed beside it
Lucky foolSeries of lucky successesProphecy of future greatness fulfilled when hero returns home unknown. Parents serve himStranger accidentally chosen king. Picked up by sacred elephantNaked soldier becomes general. Stripped for bathing he takes his place as guard when the king unexpectedly arrives. King invites him to come naked to the castle, where he is chosen as husband by a general's daughterFool passes as wise man by remaining silentHero's (heroine's) identity established as he (she) is on the point of being executedHero unwittingly helps fee's sons: rewardedWhat is in the dish: "Poor Crab". A sham wise man named Crab is put to a test of his powers of divination. He is to tell what is in a covered dish (crabs). In despair he says, "Poor Crab!" and is given credit for knowingObjects accidentally picked up used to overawe ogressPerson reported lost joins unwittingly in search for himselfMan sent away from battlefield to deliver message the only survivor of battleApparently dead woman revives as she is being prepared for burial. Cf. Type 990Passengers on a boat are terrorized by a cutthroat. He turns courteous and leaves them unharmedFugitive in tree urinates from fright: pursuers think it rain and leaveHawk carries off necklace from bathing queen and drops it by lucky girl, who gets reward
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