μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Abandonment on an island. (Marooning.)

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Cruel abandonments and exposures. · view the constellation · filed as S145

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“By other women Priam had sons, to wit, Melanip- pus, Gorgythion, Philaemon, Hippothous, Glaucus, Agathon, Chersidamas, Evagoras, Hippodamas, Mestor, Atas, Doryclus, Lycaon, Dryops, Bias, Chromius, Astygonus, Telestas, Evander, Cebriones, Mylius, Archemachus, Laodocus, Echephron, Idomeneus, Hyperion, Ascanius, Democoon, Aretus, Deiopites, Clonius, Echemmon, Hypirochus, Aegeoneus, Lysi- thous, Polymedon; and daughters, to wit, Medusa,…”

— The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. XII · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

On our shelf — the index’s citations, resolved to served chapters
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.

  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "abandon"
  • French CanadianMorin JAFL XXX 147
  • Italian Novella*Rotunda
  • GreekFrazer Apollodorus II 53 n. 5 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. XII
  • PapuaKer 7, 112
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 358
  • Eskimo (Greenland)Holm 56, Rasmussen III 200, (Labrador): Hawkes GSCan XIV 152, (Central): Boas RBAE VI 637, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 163, 166
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson CColl II 405ff.
  • general *Type 506, 890
  • general BP III 490ff.
Within the index

Filed under Cruel abandonments and exposures.

Filed beside it
Abandonment of agedExposure in boat. A person (usually woman or child) set adrift in a boat (chest, basket, cask)Person thrown into the water and abandonedAbandonment in forestAbandonment in desertAbandonment in pitAbandonment on mountainAbandonment in bonds that cannot be loosedChildren abandoned in box in potter's kilnAbandonment in stable
Travels with
Impostor leaves hero alone on island. (Cf. S145.)Treachery punished by banishment to desert isle. (Cf. S145.)Cast-off wife abandoned on island. (Cf. S145.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Cupbearer of the godsCreation of diver (bird)Man carried by birdTransformation: ant to personFuture revealed in dream. (Cf. D1810.8, D1812.5.1.2, D1813.1.)Rain produced by prayer. (Cf. D1391.1, D2141.0.7.1.)Mortal's attempt to defile goddess punishedDeath by thunderbolt as punishment

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