μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 6references

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*Cross, O'Suilleabhain 120, Beal XXI 336
  • Spanish ExemplaKeller
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 1153
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 70.
Within the index
17 finer motifs beneath it
Reward for service of god, hero, or ascetic for a periodFulfillment of precepts rewardedReward for religious sacrificeReward for faithReward for securing convertsReward for carrying Christ across a stream. Christ is in the form of a child. (St. Christopher.)Keeping fast rewardedReward for faith: boy doomed to die saved (miraculously)Reward for religious pilgrimageReward for offering food to crucifix (Madonna)Reward for saying of prayers. (Cf. V50.)Reward for austerities of hermit. (Cf. Q144.1.) The further he must carry water, the greater his heavenly rewardReward for writing hymn. (Cf. Q172.5.)Reward for repentance. (Cf. Q174.1.)Reward for carrying out dead man's requestReward for attendance on holy man. (Cf. Q116.1.)Piety rewarded – miscellaneous
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Kingdom as reward for piety. (Cf. Q20.)High position as reward for piety. (Cf. Q20.)Victory as reward for piety. (Cf. Q20.)Escape of hostages miraculously prevented as reward for piety. (Cf. Q20.)Saint's requests for releasing souls from hell. (Cf. Q20.)

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