μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

  • Irish myth*Cross
  • Icelandic*Boberg.
  • general Alphabet No. 473
  • general Plummer cxxxviii, clxxviii
  • general Loomis White Magic 27f.
Within the index

Filed under Miraculous manifestation acclaims saint.

6 finer motifs beneath it
Supernaturally bright light marks sleeping infant saint"Fair Drop" from. Heaven falls upon infant saintRadiance fills church when saint diesHand of saint made bright by Lord's touch. Too splendid for man's sight thereafterColumn of light descends from heaven upon chosen manLights show where the body of saint is buried
Filed beside it
Birth of saint predicted by visions of miraclesAngels appear above place where saint is bornBrake in which saint loses tooth bursts into flameChoral singing accompanies saintHouse of saint filled with fragranceOil bursts from ground as saint is made bishopBell sounds at approach of saintDead holy man stretches hand from tomb to honor saintHoly man passes through fire for his faith. Only his clothing burnsEarthquake accompanies entrance of holy man into palace of heathen emperorSaint falling into an abyss found perched in the branches of a tree which projected from the cliff. As soon as the man is drawn up, the tree vanishesFlowers fall from saint's mouth while he speaks. (Cf. D1454.2.1.)Holy man restores a garden to bloomSun sends shaft of heat to cook meat given persecuted saintRoses lose thorns when saint walks on themSaint changes maggots in the sores of a nun into precious stones

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