μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

  • LithuanianBalys Index No. 3491
  • SpanishBoggs FFC XC 47, 50 No. 332, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 86–90
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 611
  • Africa (Togo)Einstein 16f.
  • general Hartland Science 192, 199
Within the index

Filed under Personifications.

6 finer motifs beneath it
Death enclosed in a bottleDeath magically bound to tree. While he is bound no one can dieDeath as eight-headed monsterDeath excluded from sacred groveDeath (fate) assumes various forms to destroy menDeath's messengers
Filed beside it
Sickness personifiedLife personified: old woman carrying healing potions and salvesOld age personifiedWind personifiedSovereignty personifiedPoetry personified. (Cf. A465.1.)Sea personifiedTruth personifiedTime personifiedFury personified. (Cf. A486.)Valor personifiedVirtue personifiedEnergy (strength) personifiedSin personifiedWisdom personifiedFalsehood personified
Carried in tale types

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