μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera I 222, 342, 424, 479, 597, 740, 1148, II 355, 670, 691, 792, 918, 1028, 1272.
Within the index

Filed under Magic manifestations as punishments.

1 finer motif beneath it
Reincarnation into degraded form as punishment
Filed beside it
Undutiful son punished by toad clinging to face. (Cf. Q281.1.)Punishment: animal skin grows on man's back. He had masked in the skin in order to cheatPunishment: transformation. (Cf. D661.)Punishment: animals become sickMagic sickness as punishmentMagic paralysis as punishmentDeformity as punishmentMiraculous burning as punishment. (Cf. Q414.)Person miraculously lifted into air and dashed to death as punishment for blasphemy. (Cf. Q221.3, Q417.)Magic forgetfulness as punishmentPremature aging as punishment. (Cf. D1890.)
Travels with
Reincarnation. Return from the dead in another formReincarnation in form fitted to crime. (Cf. Q551.5.)

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