μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 14references

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.

  • IrishMacCulloch Celtic 52, *Cross
  • WelshMacCulloch Celtic 200
  • Missouri FrenchCarrière
  • ChineseGraham
  • JapaneseIkeda
  • KoreanZong in-Sob 78 No. 44
  • OceanicDixon 67f., 82, 113
  • AfricaFrobenius Atlantis IV 273
  • JamaicaBeckwith MAFLS XVII 277 No. 89
  • West IndiesFlowers 579.
  • general *Type 873
  • general DeVries Edda (1923) 155ff., DeVries Studiën over Faerösche balladen 44ff.
  • general Chauvin V 72
  • general India and China: Cowell Jātaka VI 21, Chavannes 500 Contes III 331
Within the index

Filed under Illegitimate children.

1 finer motif beneath it
Child cries because his father is unknown
Filed beside it
Illegitimate child of nun. (Cf. V465.1.2.)Mother of illegitimate child given as pledge for his crimeTest of legitimacy of children: exposure to asps. Asps will bite only foreigners. (Cf. H222.1.)Child betrays his own illegitimacyParamour leaves token with girl to give their sonIllegal to care for illegitimate child

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