μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

  • India*Thompson-Balys.
  • general *BP IV 24ff.
  • general Hdwb. d. Märchens II 164
  • general *Petsch Formelhafte Schlüsse im Volksmärchen (1900)
Within the index

Filed under Formulistic framework for tales.

Filed beside it
Beginning formulasTransition formulasEndless tales. Hundreds of sheep to be carried over stream one at a time, etc. The wording of the tale so arranged as to continue indefinitelyUnfinished tales. Just as the interest is aroused the narrator quits. "If the bowl had been stronger my tale had been longer."Catch tales. The manner of the telling forces the hearer to ask a particular question, to which the teller returns a ridiculous answer"Runs." Conventional passages of set form within a tale, usually recited in a different voice from the restTale avoiding all pronounsTales ending with a questionRounds. Stories which begin over and over again and repeatFormulistic conversationsFormulistic frameworks – miscellaneous

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