μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • general S. Am. Indian (Carib): Alexander Lat. Am. 266.
Within the index

Filed under Husband and wife.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Wife chooses father rather than husband or son. (Cf. P253.3.) Only one can be saved; he alone is irreplaceableMother kills husband for murdering their daughter
Filed beside it
Wife more merciful than blood relations. They refuse to ransom condemned man; wife does soHusband more merciful than blood relations. They refuse to ransom condemned woman; husband does soWife drinks blood of slain husbandWife only one able to persuade her husband

wander