μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • ChineseGraham.
Within the index

Filed under Adventures of kings.

1 finer motif beneath it
King carries off subject's wife and makes her his own
Filed beside it
Disguised king punished by peasant. Beaten because he does not get up early enough. (King Alfred and the cakes.)King loses his kingdom to impostor. (Cf. K1934.1.)King is cursed by disguised dwarf-smiths whose work he criticisedKing frees man sent by rival king to kill him. He sees bravery in the would-be assassinKing descends to bottom of sea in glass barrel to study ways of fishesKing himself works at brick building so that subjects cannot complain of enforced laborSubjects drive their ruler away after he has made them do forced labor

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