μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 13references

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
  • ItalianBasile Pentamerone IV No. 7, *Rotunda
  • India*Thompson-Balys.
  • general *Type 516
  • general *Rösch FFC LXXVII 100
  • general *Chauvin V 132 No. 112
  • general *Penzer X 214 s. v. "Love by mere mention"
  • general Malone PMLA XLIII 399
  • general *Dickson 188 n. 63
  • general Hibbard 208 n. 18, 226 n. 1
  • general *Cross MPh XII 612 n. 3
  • general Moore PMLA XXIX (1914) 527f.
  • general Fb "hår" IV 241b. Irish myth: *Cross
Within the index

Filed under Falling in love with person never seen.

1 finer motif beneath it
Beauty of woman reported to king causes quest for her as his bride
Filed beside it
Love through sight of pictureLove through dream. Falling in love with a person seen in a dreamLove through sight of something belonging to unknown princessFalling in love with reflection in water. Princess thus first sees princeWish for wife red as blood, white as snow, black as ravenLove through sight in magic mirror. (Cf. D1163.)Falling in love with beautiful voice

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