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.

  • Irish mythCross.
Within the index

Filed under Traits of character – miscellaneous.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Magic help sent to enemy. Hero sends fairy healing charms to his enemy so that when they resume fighting it cannot be said he wins because of superior careRefusal to fight wounded enemy. Hero feels it dishonorable to fight with sorely wounded enemy, because it would be said he died of previous wounds rather than the ones hero might inflictLong life sacrificed that descendants may be kings as prophesied. (Cf. M314.)
Filed beside it
Active imaginationEagerness for combatMan will not allow food served to strangers until a man of them wrestles with himMan will not do a woman's biddingThriftTaciturn manMoving home simple for poor man. Man is so poor that when he moves all he has to do is to put out the fire and whistle for the dog to follow him

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