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
  • JewishNeuman
  • Eskimo (Smith Sound)Kroeber JAFL XII 177, (Greenland): Rink 157, 222, 469, Holm 47, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 62.
Within the index

Filed under Murder punished. (Cf. Q411.6, Q413.4, Q414.0.12, Q416.0.2, Q417.1, Q421.0.4, Q424.0.1, Q431.1, Q431.9, Q450.1.1, Q451.1.4, Q451.2.3, Q451.4.5, Q451.7.4, Q469.6, Q469.12, Q491.6, Q497, Q511, Q511.1, Q512.0.1, Q520.1, Q545, Q551.3.3, Q551.8.3, Q552.3.0.2, Q556.2, Q556.10, Q558.9, Q582.3.)

1 finer motif beneath it
Wounded king exacts fine from those intending to slay him
Filed beside it
God revenges murder after thirty yearsEnormity of kin murderEmperor punished for his many murders. He is carried to hellParricide punished. (Cf. Q552.2.3.3, Q552.3.1.1, Q553.3.3.)Matricide punishedUxoricide punished. (Cf. Q414.0.1, Q416.0.2.1, Q596.1.)Murder of children punished. (Cf. Q418.2, Q455.1, Q553.5.)Suicide punished. (Cf. Q503.1.)Killing an animal revenged. (Cf. Q231, Q424.1, Q582.4.)Punishment for splitting head and eating man's brainsFratricide punished. (Cf. Q411, Q414.0.13.)Punishment for murder of co-wifePunishment for wholesale massacre of tribeMurder of parents punished by member of familySlave killed who killed enemy at owner's order
Travels with
Criminal intent punished. (Cf. Q211.8, Q261.1, Q451.7.0.2.4.)Punishment: millstone hung around neck. Woman has had desire to kill frog. (Cf. Q211.8.)Miraculous drowning as punishment for desire to murder. (Cf. Q211.8.)
Carried in tale types

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