μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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 mythCross
  • Missouri FrenchCarrière.
  • general **C. Schubert Der Pflegesohn (Nourri) im Heldenepos (Marburg, 1906)
Within the index

Filed under Foster relatives.

8 finer motifs beneath it
Magician as foster father. (Cf. N845.)Fisherman as foster fatherDwarf as foster father. (Cf. F451.5.1.)Living king's or nobleman's son as foster son of father's friend: considered an honor for the foster fatherFoster father as constant helperFoster children return foster father's love: avenge him, etcKing's son named after his father's foster fatherThor slays his foster father and takes himself the realm of Thrace
Filed beside it
Foster parents fined for blemish on childPeasant and his wife as foster parents of exposed king's sonParents kill son for slaying their foster sonFoster motherFoster brotherFoster sisterFoster son

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