μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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 1930
  • general BP III 244ff.
Within the index

Filed under Other tall tales.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Lie: child throws down a kidLie: child throws down mill-wheels from one town to another
Filed beside it
Man in moon lets himself down. (Cf. A751.)Boy shot from a cannonBoy with hat of butter, clothes of paper, etcMan in hollow tree defends himself successfully from leopard and bearLie: plow without horse or wheelsLie: 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
Carried in tale types

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