μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 6references

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
  • Italian Novella*Rotunda
  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general *Type 1930
  • general *BP III 244ff.
  • general Boccaccio Decameron VIII No. 3 (Lee 254)
Within the index

Filed under Lies about geography and topography.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Land in which highest praise parents can earn is that they marry their children when they are babiesBlind town, its king fourfold blindLie: land where all things are sold for the same priceMountain of grain to be eaten through on way to Schlaraffenland. (Cf. X1712.)
Filed beside it
Topsy-turvy land. Land where all is opposite from the usualThe extraordinary names. A place where animals and things are designated by senseless names. (Cf. Z32.2.1.)[First Edition: X961. Extraordinary objects or actions in Schlaraffenland.]
Travels with
All nature composed of food in vision. (Cf. V514, X1503.)Schlaraffenland lies three miles beyond ChristmasGreatest liar made king of Schlaraffenland. (Cf. X1503.)
Carried in tale types

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