μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
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.

  • Irish mythCross
  • Finnish-SwedishWessman 18f. Nos. 164, 188
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • TuamotuHenry Ancient Tahiti (Honolulu, 1928) 511.
Within the index

Filed under Prodigy as punishment.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Quaking of earth as punishment. (Cf. D2148.)Land sinks and lake appears as punishmentGrave sinks so that grave-robbers cannot get out. (Cf. Q212.2.)Earth swallowings as punishment. (Cf. F940, Q221.4.3.)
Filed beside it
Death from elements as punishment for unjust judgment (by poets)Death by thunderbolt as punishmentFailure of crops during reign of wicked king. (Cf. Q552.10.1.)Ear of stolen animal protrudes from thief's mouth. (Cf. Q212.)Monstrous births as punishment for girl's pride. (Cf. M437, Q331, T550.)Rich lord who robs poor widow of her cow chokes on first mouthful. (Cf. Q212.)Mary-image descends and chastises clerk who scoffs at its rude carving. (Cf. Q225.)Dead cock rises, crows, and spatters scoffers so that they become leprous. (Cf. Q225.)Punishment: woman who has prevented birth of children casts no shadow. (Cf. Q251.)Plague as punishmentPunishment: meeting frightful apparition. (Ghost, mysterious animal, devil.)Punishment: shipwreckFire from heaven as punishment. (Cf. F797, F962.2.)Storm as punishment. (Cf. D905.)Punishment: cloud cuts off view of man promised all he can see for expelling saint. (Cf. Q227.)Food and drink refused saint miraculously become putrid. (Cf. D2096, Q227.)

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