μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • general *Type 1875
  • general Köhler-Bolte I 410
  • general *Fb "tønde" III 935a, "ræv" III 114a.
Within the index

Filed under Lie: the hunter in danger.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Animal unwittingly puts tail into man's hands and is caughtIf the wolf's tail breaks. Trickster and companion are wolf hunting. The companion goes into the wolf hole. The wolf comes. The other catches the wolf by the tail and the wolf scratches dust into the companion's eyes. "What a dust." – "If the wolf's tail breaks, you will see another kind of dust!"
Filed beside it
Lie: man uses remarkable means of getting out of tree stumpMan escapes from bear by running for a long time, from summer to winter. Bear chases man in July; he finally crosses a river on the ice. The bear falls in or stops following (in December)Man escapes from bee's nest on bear's tailTigers stand on each other's heads trying to reach man in tree. His tears form a stream
Carried in tale types

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