μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 9references

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.

  • PersianCarnoy 287
  • JewishNeuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • KoreanZong in-Sob 5 No. 2
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 230
  • Africa (Ekoi)Talbot 126, (Fjort): Dennett 60 No. 12, (Zulu): *Callaway 9
  • Cape Verde IslandsParsons MAFLS XV (1) 352.
  • general *Ranke FFC CXIV 156
  • general S. Am. Indian (Aztec): Alexander Lat. Am. 60, (Inca): Rowe BBAE CXLIII (2) 318, (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 161, 166, (Karib): ibid. 147
Within the index

Filed under Precocious infant.

1 finer motif beneath it
Child stronger than mother on day of birth
Filed beside it
Child speaks at birth. (Cf. T575.1.)Infant born blind immediately drowns selfInfant saint rebukes mother's impietyChild born with all his teethNewborn child kisses dying motherPrecocious hero leaves cradle to go to warChild stands (walks) at birthChild born circumcised

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