μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 7references

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
  • SpanishBoggs FFC XC 46 No. 316
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • JapaneseIkeda
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 342 n. 235
  • general Krappe Revue Celtique XLVIII (1931) 94–123
  • general Africa (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 399 No. 1.
Within the index

Filed under Husband rescues wife.

1 finer motif beneath it
Husband frees wife who has sold herself into slavery in order to ransom him
Filed beside it
Husband rescues wife from burning at stake. (Cf. R175.)Husband rescues wife from cannibal. (Cf. G10.)
Travels with
Quest for vanished wife (mistress)Princess (maiden) abducted by monster (ogre). (Cf. R10.1.)

wander