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
  • IcelandicLagerholm 161–63, Boberg
  • Missouri FrenchCarrière
  • HebrewGenesis ch. 37, *Neuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 41.
  • general Chauvin VII 108 No. 379bis
Within the index

Filed under Cruel abandonments and exposures.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Abandonment in wellAbandonment in cave
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 on an island. (Marooning.)Abandonment on mountainAbandonment in bonds that cannot be loosedChildren abandoned in box in potter's kilnAbandonment in stable

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