μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

  • IcelandicBoberg
  • Missouri FrenchCarrière
  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general *Encyc. Religion Ethics s. v. "adoption"
Within the index
8 finer motifs beneath it
Adoption by suckling. Ogress who suckles hero claims him as her sonAdopted child reproaches his foster mother and is returned to his real motherRich but stingy couple adopt young man as their son: everybody is happyAdopted child deserted when own child is born to coupleReal mother preferred to foster mothers. Kid abandoned by his mother suckles the whole flock but is not satisfiedChildless couple adopt animal as substitute for childSubstitute for a child. Aged, childless couple carve themselves a child from wood, or make one from snow, clay, and the likeAdopted child identical with real child reared with him

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