μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 15references

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
  • Irish myth*Cross
  • LithuanianBalys Index No. 774*
  • SpanishBoggs FFC XC 98, 760C*, 836C*, Keller
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • ChineseGraham, Eberhard FFC CXX 67, 196
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 268, 556, 1264
  • TongaGifford 207
  • TuamotuBeckwith Myth 504
  • Maoriibid. 374
  • Eskimo (Greenland)Rink 396
  • Africa (Wakweli)Bender 63, 106, (Fang): Tessman 117, (Jaunde): Heepe 247ff.
  • West IndiesFlowers 568.
  • general *Hdwb. d. Märchens I 188 nn. 154, 166, 167
  • general Crane Liber de Miraculis 86 No. 10
Within the index

Filed under Misdeeds concerning property punished.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Devil carries off rich manAvaricious man has neck broken when top of his treasure chest falls on himAvaricious miser tries to eat his adored money and chokes to deathAvaricious woman and her gold consumed by hell's fires which burn in her grave
Filed beside it
Debtor punished. (Cf. Q421.0.1, Q473.0.1, Q491.2, Q499.5.)Usury punishedSwindler punished. (Cf. Q414.0.6.1, Q456.0.2, Q491.1.1, Q557.3.)Remover of landmarks punishedStinginess punished. (Cf. Q551.2.8, Q589.4.)Covetousness punished
Travels with
Punishment for greed: streams of sugar, molasses, and milk from anchorite's tomb dry up and petrify because of townspeople's greed. (Cf. Q272.)Man cannot drive cow by himself which he refused to share. (Cf. Q272.)Greed
Carried in tale types

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