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.

  • SpanishKeller, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 104, 216
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • Eskimo (Greenland)Rink 428, (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 473
  • TuamotuStimson MS (T-G. 3/629)
  • S. Am. Indian (Chiriguano)Métraux RMLP XXXIII 177
  • Africa (Wakweli)Bender 108, (Duala): Lederbogen Märchen 84, (Congo): Weeks Congo 214, (Luba): DeClerq ZsKS IV 193
  • West IndiesFlowers 569.
  • general Alphabet No. 441
Within the index

Filed under Evil personal habits punished.

Filed beside it
Laziness punished. (Cf. Q495.1.)Dirtiness punished. (Cf. Q432.1, Q433.3, W115.)Unthriftiness punishedImpudence punished. (Cf. Q411.10, Q413.5.)Discourtesy punished. (Cf. Q221.1, Q583.2.)
Travels with
Banishment because of disobedience. Maiden wants to become nun and not marry. (Cf. Q325.)Miraculous blindness as punishment for disobedience. (Cf. Q325.)Burial alive as punishment for disobedience to king. (Cf. Q325.)Flogging as punishment for disobedience to rulers. (Cf. Q325.)Thunderbolt demolishes fortress as punishment for disobedience (to saint). (Cf. Q227, Q325.)Dead mother appears and makes disobedient child eat fatal serpent. (Cf. Q325.)Angel scourges mortal for disobedience to God. (Cf. Q220, Q325, Q458.)

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