μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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 mythCross.
  • general *Wells 784
  • general *Hibbard 49ff. (Sir Gowther)
  • general *Krappe Mod. Lang. Rev. XXIV (1929) 200ff.
Within the index

Filed under Childless couple promise child to the devil if they may only have one.

Filed beside it
Maid pledged to devil dresses conspicuouslyGirl promises unborn child to devil if he will suffer the birth pangsMother curses her unborn child. (Cf. M411.1.)An old maid promises the devil her first born. She wishes to get a husbandChildless couple promise one of two children to devil if they may only have them
Carried in tale types

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