μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 19references

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.

  • IcelandicM. Moe in Edda 1914 p. 245, *Boberg
  • ArabianBasset 1001 Contes I 136, II 68
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • KoreanZong in-Sob 73 No. 40, 136 No. 63
  • IndonesiaJ. Brandes Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde XLI 295f., 469, Jeynboll Supplement Catalogus Jav. – Madoereesche Handschriften I 53ff.
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 231
  • AfricaFrobenius Atlantis III 247
  • Cape Verde IslandsParsons MAFLS XV (1) 211f. No. 73, 220 No. 74.
  • general *Type 516
  • general *BP I 45
  • general *Rösch FFC LXXVII 100
  • general *Chauvin V 132 No. 112
  • general *Penzer III 82 n. 2, IX 36 n. 1
  • general *Moore PMLA XXIX 527f.
  • general Rohde Griechische Roman 45ff.
  • general Dunlop-Wilson II 258
  • general Bédier Fabliaux (1895) 113ff.
  • general *Krappe Revue Hispanique LXXXI 5ff. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 78, *Cross
  • general N. Am. Indian (Yana): Curtin Creation Myths 425ff.
Within the index

Filed under Falling in love with person never seen.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Lovers meet in their dreamsDream about a marriage with another's wife
Filed beside it
Love from mere mention or descriptionLove through sight of pictureLove 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
Carried in tale types

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