μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Man leaps from vessel into jaws of sea-beast, so as to save remaining passengers.

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel sacrifices. · Sacrifices. · view the constellation · filed as S263.5.3

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross.
Within the index

Filed under Sacrificial suicide. (Cf. S264.1.2.)

Filed beside it
Saints (monks) sacrifice themselves (to avert plague) Monks sacrifice themselves (to save king and princes from pestilence)
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Man thrown overboard to placate storm. (Cf. S263.5.3.)

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