μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "cercueil".
Within the index

Filed under Various ways of disposing of dead.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Hero buried in armor, standing with face toward land of enemies. (Cf. V67.)Person buried in standing position with friends about himMan buried upright beneath kitchen stairway in order that he may watch his family
Filed beside it
Dead placed on boatDead burned on pyre. (Cremation.)Head buried one place, body anotherKing buried in his war carChristian buried in stone coffinChristian buried in wooden coffinBurial in grave-moundLion buried in stone cave with gold lettersCorpses exposed in treeAversion to burial in "strange city"

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