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.

  • IrishBeal XXI 331
  • SpanishKeller, Espinosa III No. 264, Espinosa Jr. No. 41
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 1159
  • AfricaWoodson 64, (Wakweli): Bender 50, Sieber 89ff., (Bantu): Einstein 148, (Lokele): Grenfell 820, (Jaunde): Heepe 89, (Fang): Tessman 188
  • West IndiesFlowers 568
  • JamaicaBeckwith MAFLS XVII 267 No. 76.
  • general Maori, Samoa, Tonga: *Beckwith Myth 504f.
Within the index

Filed under Unkindness punished.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Ungrateful children punished. (Cf. Q551.1, Q557.1, Q557.2, Q588.)Ungrateful ruler is deposedWoman eats flesh and leaves cat only bones of fish cat has caught for them. Cursed by catUngrateful king raises old woman's rent; miraculous punishment. (Cf. W154.2.)
Filed beside it
Irreverent young people punished by outraged old manReproach concerning physical deformity (blemish) punished. (Cf. Q411.9.)Cruelty punished. (Cf. E501.3.1, Q415.3.1.)Uncharitableness punished. (Cf. Q494.1.1, Q552.3.0.1, Q571.2, Q572.2, Q574.2, Q585.1, Q595.3.)Refusal to grant request punished. (Cf. Q499.4.)Punishment for mockery. (Cf. Q556.8, Q583.1.)Hard-heartedness punished. (Cf. Q415.2.)Inhospitality punished. (Cf. P320, Q45, Q551.6.7, Q556.7, W158.)Monkey destroys nest of bird who has made sport of himInjustice punished. (Cf. Q265, Q552.1.6.)Slander punished
Travels with
Magic sickness as punishment for ingratitude. (Cf. Q281.)Creditor in former existence comes to confiscate riches of unkind man in next existence. (Cf. Q281.)Birds take back their feathers from ungrateful wolf to whom they have lent them. (Cf. Q281.)

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