μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 10references

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.

  • SpanishEspinosa Jr. No. 66
  • N. Am. Indian (Zuñi)Boas JAFL XXXV 66 No. 2.
  • general *Types 425, 810
  • general *BP II 329, 483
  • general *Fb "først" I 404, "møde" II 647a
  • general Wünsche 34f.
  • general *Tegethoff 18
  • general *Cox Cinderella 511
  • general *Andrejev FFC LXIX 50, 62, 228 n.
  • general Johnston MLN XXII 233. French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 17
Within the index

Filed under Children unwittingly promised (sold). (Cf. S211.)

3 finer motifs beneath it
Unwitting bargain with devil evaded by driving dog over bridge first. The child has been unwittingly promised (the first thing that goes over the bridge)Devil is to have last one who leaves "black school"Princess promised unwittingly to madman: "what you ask for."
Filed beside it
Girl promised unwittingly by her parents to ogreChild unwittingly promised: "what you have at home." The man thinks it is a cat (dog)Child unwittingly promised: Nix-Naught-Nothing. The child born while the father is away is named Nix-Naught-NothingChild unwittingly promised: what is born on your farm. Two women agree that what is born on the farm of each belongs exclusively to the owner. The child of one is born on the farm of the otherDaughter unwittingly promised to dog rescuer. (Cf. B620.1.) Without knowing that a dog has rescued her, the father offers her in marriage to her rescuer
Carried in tale types

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