μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Kind and unkind. Churlish person disregards requests of old person (animal) and is punished. Courteous person (often youngest brother or sister) complies and is rewarded.

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“For instance, one of these seven visitors was wonderfully enamoured of a fine country, and expressed a de- sire to remain there, and to live long; whereupon, at Glooscap’s direction, Earthquake took him and stood him up, and he be- came a cedar-tree.'® When the wind blew through its boughs, they were bent and broken with great fracas, — making a thunder-storm that rolled far and wide over the country, ac- companied by strong winds,…”

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 3 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
Scholars’ trail — 19references

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.

  • French CanadianBarbeau JAFL XXIX 15
  • Missouri FrenchCarrière
  • SpanishBoggs FFC XC 75 No. 594, Espinosa II No. 86, III Nos. 141–143, 153, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 117, 183, 202–204
  • ItalianBasile Pentamerone III No. 10, IV No. 7, V No. 2
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • ChineseGraham
  • JapaneseAnesaki 318f., Ikeda
  • KoreanZong in-Sob 32 No. 15, 46 No. 27
  • IndonesiaDeVries's list No. 172, Dixon 210
  • TuamotuStimson MS (z-G. 13/167)
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson CColl II 383, 386ff., 432, *Thompson Tales 276 n. 18b, (California): Gayton and Newman 95
  • AfricaWerner African 138ff., 204, 208, 210, (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 89 No. 16, (Benga): Nassau 213 No. 23, (Ekoi): Talbot 237, 280, (Kaffir): Theal 48, 52, (Basuto): Jacottet 140, 146, 224, (Yoruba): Ellis 244 No. 1, (Fjort): Dennett 121f., (Ibo, Nigeria): Basden 282, (Duala): Lederbogen JAS IV 70, Märchen 84
  • Cape Verde IslandsParsons MAFLS XV (1) 125 No. 44.
  • general *Types 361, 403, 431, 440, 480, 513, 550, 551, 554, 570, 571, 577, 610, 620, 707, 750**, 287**
  • general *BP I 86, 99, 207, 503, II 21, 39, 380, 394, 427, III 84, 267, 276
  • general **Roberts
  • general *Cox Cinderella 481
  • general MacCulloch Childhood 61
  • general *Saintyves Perrault 10. Irish: O'Suilleabhain 18
Within the index

Filed under Rewards and punishments.

Filed beside it
Hospitality rewarded – opposite punishedModerate request rewarded; immoderate punishedHumble rewarded, haughty punishedLaziness punished; industry rewardedGood thoughts rewarded, bad punishedDeity descends and makes king and wronged subject change places
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Creator's grandmother. Casually mentioned in the course of the creation mythDivinity's departure for westCulture hero's (divinity's) expected return. Divinity or hero is expected to return at the proper time and rescue his people from their misfortunes. Often joined with A571Boneless man turned over to produce seasonsTabu: looking into box (Pandora)Magic airshipsMagic canoe. (Cf. D1121.)Canoe made by magicWaters magically divide and closeLove-compelling man sickens of bargain. A man given the power of making all women love him is smothered to death by themRising and falling sky. Sky rises and falls at horizon, giving periodic access to the other worldModesty brings reward
Carried in tale types

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