μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Game with ancestors' bones. A boy interrupts a game played with the bones of his father or other murdered relative.

Society. · The family. · The family. · view the constellation · filed as P203

Scholars’ trail — 1 reference (open)

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.

  • N. Am. Indian Kroeber JAFL XXI 225.
Within the index

Filed under The family.

Filed beside it
Inherent enmity between members of a family Person reproached for having no relatives Refusal to fight relatives

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