μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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 myth*Cross
  • IcelandicBoberg
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • JapaneseIkeda.
  • general *Type 326
  • general Penzer VII 120 n. 2
Within the index

Filed under Rewards for other causes.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Snake helps girl who permits it to wind itself around her bodyFerocious animal (lion, tiger, etc.) rewards man who does not fear it
Filed beside it
Reward for perseveranceReward for marital fidelity. (Cf. Q87.)Reward for stoic endurance of painReward for asking proper questionsReward for industryReward for preservation of chastityReward for proficiencyReward for clevernessReward for supernatural helpReward for cureReward for musician
Carried in tale types

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