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.

  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • Irish myth*Cross
  • Missouri FrenchCarrière
  • SpanishEspinosa II No. 19, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 138–41
  • India*Thompson-Balys.
  • general Gaster Oldest Stories 171
Within the index

Filed under Rescue of abandoned or lost persons.

22 finer motifs beneath it
Nurse begs alms from door to door so as to keep child and nurture himMiraculous rescue of all exposed childrenHunter rescues abandoned childMiller rescues abandoned childHerdsman rescues abandoned child. (Cf. S351.2.)Fisher rescues abandoned childServant rescues abandoned childPeasant rescues abandoned childMerchant rescues abandoned child. (Cf. N851.)Other workmen rescue abandoned childPorter rescues abandoned childHermit rescues abandoned child. (Cf. N843, R169.2.)Exalted person rescues abandoned childFairy rescues abandoned child. (Cf. F311.)Palmer rescues abandoned child. (Cf. N846.1.)Sailors rescue abandoned childChildren abandoned in a boat survive storm and are rescuedAngel rescues abandoned childCoyote rescues abandoned child(ren)Pious woman rescues abandoned childBard (poet) rescues abandoned childIndians rescue abandoned children
Filed beside it
Vanished wife rescuedAbandoned children (wife, etc.) find way back by clue (bread-crumb, grain, pebble, etc.). They have dropped the objects while being led awayMermaid rescues heroine who has been thrown overboard. (Cf. B81.)Rescue from shipwreckRescue from wellExposed children swallowed by earth; vomited up when grown. (Cf. F900.)Abandoned man befriended by a Centaur. (Cf. B21.)
Carried in tale types

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