μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 793
  • West AfricaTauxier La Noir du Yatenga (Paris, 1917) 496f. No. 1, (Hausa): Basset Mélusine III 226f. No. 2, (Senegambia): Bérenger-Feraud II 185ff. No. 2.
Within the index

Filed under Periodic sacrifices to a monster.

Filed beside it
One man disappears each nightWoman given to devastating monster as wife to appease itTribute of youths regularly sent to foreign kingGirl offers to sacrifice herself to dragon in place of her parents
Travels with
Lots cast to determine luck or fate

wander