μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • JapaneseIkeda
  • Philippine (Tinguian)Cole 110
  • Africa (Fjort)Dennett 60 No. 12, (Congo): Weeks 206 No. 3, (Angola): Chatelain 131 No. 13.
Within the index

Filed under Marriage of mortal and supernatural being.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Hero marries star in form of girlMarriage of mortal and moon. (Cf. A753.1.)Sun has a woman for his wife
Filed beside it
Marriage to supernatural wives who disappearSupernatural wife summoned by bellMarriage of a mortal and a godMarriage of man with woman who has come from an eggGod as lover of giantess (18 giantesses)Marriage of mortal and dwarfMarriage of mortal and angel

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