μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

  • EnglishWells 136 (Sir Gowther)
  • IrishBeal XXI 330
  • SpanishBoggs FFC XC 86 No. 756B.
  • general *Dickson 257 n. 80
Within the index

Filed under Humiliating penances. (Cf. Q470.)

Filed beside it
Penance: crawling to Rome on kneesPenance: walking on all-fours like beastPenance: living under stairs as mendicantPenance: planting garden and offering free hospitality to all. (Cf. Q481.)Penance: slain cats, dogs, etc. to be hung up and covered with grain by man who has killed themPenance: seven years' service for seven days' neglect of religious duty. (Cf. Q223.)Penance: performing all services asked for by anyonePenance: king to take off crown and lick spittle from groundPenance: fasting in sackcloth and ashes
Travels with
Adulteress compelled to eat a dog's leavings. (Cf. Q241, Q523.3.)

wander