μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 7references

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
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • JapaneseIkeda.
  • general *Types 306, 506
  • general *Liljeblad passim
  • general *BP III 83
  • general *Kittredge Harvard Studies and Notes in Philology VIII 250
Within the index

Filed under Unusual marriage.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Monster husband invisibleMarriage of dragon girl to orphan boy
Filed beside it
Marriage of mortal and supernatural beingMarriage to man alive by night but dead by dayMan marries ogre's daughterMarriage of person and objectUnequal 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
Carried in tale types

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