μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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
  • ChineseGraham.
  • general *Type 425
  • general *Tegethoff 16
  • general Krappe MLR XXIV (1929) 200ff.
Within the index

Filed under Unusual marriage.

8 finer motifs beneath it
Marriage to supernatural wives who disappearSupernatural wife summoned by bellMarriage of a mortal and a godWoman from sky-world marries mortal manMarriage 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
Filed beside it
Marriage to man alive by night but dead by dayMan marries ogre's daughterMarriage of person and objectGirl (man) married to (enamored of) a monsterUnequal marriageMarriage by royal order. Widow hesitates to marry. Queen sends her a letter ordering her to marry the bearer (a suitor)Lazy boy and industrious girl matched. Jesus (incognito) as matchmakerFantastic marriage
Travels with
Mythical being asks for girl in marriage. (Cf. T111.)
Carried in tale types

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