μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
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 mythCross
  • Spanish ExemplaKeller
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Africa (Bulu)Krug 110.
  • general Penzer IV 142f.
Within the index

Filed under Overweening punished. (Cf. Q552.19.1, Q582.5.)

2 finer motifs beneath it
Devil torments old man who has laid aside his humilityVanity punished
Filed beside it
Boldness punishedImmoderate request punished. (Cf. Q501.8, Q559.6, Q572.4, Q582.6, Q585.2.)
Travels with
Lightning strikes monk who despises humility. (Cf. Q331.)Miraculous drowning as punishment for haughtiness. (Cf. Q331.)Monstrous births as punishment for girl's pride. (Cf. M437, Q331, T550.)False pride. Son ashamed of his peasant father who brings him money. Father disinherits him. (Cf. Q331.)

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