μῦθοι Mythoi
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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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Other tall tales.

1 finer motif beneath it
The boy in the hollow tree. He frightens the woodchopper who leaves behind his horse
Filed beside it
Man in moon lets himself down. (Cf. A751.)Boy shot from a cannonBoy with hat of butter, clothes of paper, etcLie: plow without horse or wheelsLie: suckling children rock mother in cradleLie: man drowned on mountainLie: man cuts ice with own headLie: the hunt for the lost beeThe over-hasty toad (beetle). Is years ascending steps. On last step falls and curses hasteWhy gypsies have no churches. They ate up their churches made of cheese and bacon. (Cf. X650.)Lie: warrior whose horse is cut in two continues to ride on the half horseLie: the great noise from the bass-viol

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