μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

  • U.S.Baughman
  • LithuanianBalys Index No. 2300
  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general Type 2350
  • general Taylor JAFL XLVI 88, Hdwb. d. Märchens II 190
Within the index

Filed under Formulistic framework for tales.

Filed beside it
Beginning formulasEnd 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 questionFormulistic conversationsFormulistic frameworks – miscellaneous
Carried in tale types

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