μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • JewishNeuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Human helpers.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Holy man as helperHero ransoms maltreated picture of a saint. As reward he gets help from the grateful saintA wise man (saint, brahmin) recognizes that a man unwittingly carries a venomous serpent in his proviant sack and warns him
Filed beside it
Help from little manLame boy (girl) as helperOld person as helperHelp from beggar. (Cf. N825.3.1.)Child as helper. (Cf. N832.)Wise woman as helperGirl as helperBoy as helper. (Cf. N827)Wealthy (powerful) man as helperKing as helperQueen as helperHero (culture hero) as helperShepherd as helperCook as helperHermit as helperDervish as helper

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