μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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Filed across the traditions
  • Welsh MacCulloch Celtic 95
  • Icelandic MacCulloch Eddic 21, 74
  • Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "croissance"
  • Greek *Frazer Apollodorus I 175 n. 2, Fox 175 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK II, ch. IV
  • Persian Carnoy 332
  • Babylonian Spence 54
  • Jewish *Neuman
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Chinese Ferguson 30, Werner 306, *Coyajee JPASB XXIV 179 → on our shelf: Myths & Legends of China, Chapter XII
  • Japanese Mitford 189ff., Ikeda
  • Philippine Dixon 234, (Tinguian): Cole 30 n. 3, 53, 102
  • Eskimo (Greenland) Holm 47, Rasmussen I 234, 238, III 153
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 307 n. 112, (California): Gayton and Newman 69
  • Africa Werner African 221, (Benga): Nassau 185 No. 24, (Basuto): Jacottet 118 No. 17, 70 No. 11, (Ekoi): Talbot 33, 127, 312, (Zulu): Callaway 8ff., 73, 110, (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 147 No. 29, (Boloki): Einstein 112, (Baluba): ibid. 183, (Fang): ibid. 57.
  • general *Köhler-Bolte I 405, 544
  • general *Child V 482 s. v. "growth"
  • general Fb "pattebarn" II 792
  • general Gaster Oldest Stories 130. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 26, *Cross
  • general S. Am. Indian (Carajá): Métraux MAFLS XL 49, (Toba): ibid. 89, 98, 157, (Tupinamba): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 132, (Cashinawa): ibid. 684, (Yurakare): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 144, (Karib): ibid. 147, (Uru-Chipaya): ibid. 109
Within the index

Filed under Nurture and growth of children.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Precocious speech. (Cf. T585.) Women old from their birth Precocious wisdom Precocious boy supports his widowed mother and himself by use of his wits Precocious young child demands weapons. (Cf. T617.1.)
Filed beside it
Suckling of children Child born of slain mother cares for itself during infancy Diabolical child kills his wet-nurses. (Gowther, Robert the Devil.) Boy reared in ignorance of the world Orphan inquires about parents. (Cf. L111.4.1.)
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Precocious infant
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Sun father-in-law Giant as culture hero Devastating fox. Monthly human sacrifice Animal bribed with food. (Sop to Cerberus.) Animal as guard of person or house Guardian animals evaded Nuptial tabu. Man and wife forbidden intercourse for definite time Transformation: man to stone Transformation: man to feather Transformation: sea dragon to serpent Transformation: dragon-king to gust of wind Petrification by glance
Carried in tale types

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