μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 8references

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
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • Jewishbin Gorion Born Judas 2d ed. I 227
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera I 1024
  • KoreanZong in-Sob 107 No. 57.
  • general Type 973*
  • general Child V 496 s. v. "Ships"
  • general Chauvin VII 30 No. 212 n. 2
Within the index

Filed under Sacrifice to rivers and seas.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Man carried on top of mast ready to be sacrificed to storm spiritWoman drowns herself as sacrifice to water-gods to save husband's boat from capsizing. (Cf. S263.5.)
Filed beside it
Sacrifice to tank
Travels with
Passenger brings bad luck to ship. Cast overboard. Jonah. (Cf. S264.1.)Man leaps from vessel into jaws of sea-beast, so as to save remaining passengers
Carried in tale types

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