μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 9references

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.

  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • Spanish ExemplaKeller
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • KoreanZong in-Sob 154ff. No. 68.
  • general *Types 516
  • general *BP I 46
  • general **Rösch FFC LXXVII 95f.
  • general **Hdwb. d. Märchens I 389 (and cross references there given)
Within the index

Filed under Master and servant.

9 finer motifs beneath it
Faithful servant dies for his master. Puts on his master's clothes so as to be slain in his place. (Cf. P316.)Faithful servant remains at home and fights for exiled heroFaithful servant sacrifices sons to save life of king. Sons resuscitated and servant enrichedFaithful nurse tries to save tyrant's daughter by exposing her own in her placeAbandoned maiden helped by her faithful nurseFaithful servant dies avenging master's deathCaptain will not betray king's secret. He refuses to betray where recruits are being raisedFaithful servant undergoes torture for sake of his masterCrow lets itself be caught so as to save king of crows
Filed beside it
Faithful servant entrusted with care and education of crown princeFaithless servantMaster demands that servant tell him of his faults as well as of his good qualities
Travels with
Hero rescued by servant. (Cf. P361, R53.4.)
Carried in tale types

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