μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • Eskimo (Cumberland Sound)Boas BAM XV 163, 166, 261, (Greenland): Rink 410, Rasmussen I 137, 363, III 85, 154, 200, (Central): Boas RBAE VI 583, 637, (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 49.
  • general *Encyc. Religion Ethics III 271ff. s. v. "Celibacy"
Within the index
8 finer motifs beneath it
Ceremonial continenceWoman averse to marriage. (Cf. T321.1, T327.3.)Saint's daughter dies when wooedRavished girl's virginity restored by Virgin MaryFather kills daughter lest she become prostituteContinence in marriageThe repression of lust. (Cf. D1356.)Wife proves her faithfulness. Had substituted for husband's mistress. Proves legitimacy of her child by producing tokens and by child's missing toe (like her husband's four-toed foot)

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