μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 11references

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.

  • EnglishWells 96 (Chevalere Assigne)
  • Irish myth*Cross
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • Missouri FrenchCarrière
  • JewishNeuman
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 651
  • MarquesasHandy 53
  • MaoriBeckwith Myth 318
  • Eskimo (Greenland)Holm 56, Rasmussen I 363, III 200, (Labrador): Hawkes GSCan XIV 152, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 637
  • Africa (Fang)Einstein 153.
  • general Hdwb. d. Märchens I 346b nn. 130–46
Within the index

Filed under Murders.

1 finer motif beneath it
River carrier (whale, crocodile) throws passenger off and drowns him
Filed beside it
Old people killed in famineMan kills all guests, hoping some day to kill rivalPrincess builds tower of skulls of unsuccessful suitorsPrince resolves to drive relatives from his domain. Kills manyMurderer kills all who come to certain spotMurder by poisoningBurning to death. (See notes to K955 and Q414.)Murder by strangling. See references to Q424Murder by flayingMurder by stabbingMurder by crushing. (Cf. S167.)Death by dragging behind horseMurder by cuttingMurder by slamming down chest-lid. Done while victim is looking into the chestFlogging to death. (Cf. Q458.2.)Burial alive

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