μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Within the index

Filed under Formulistic framework for tales.

1 finer motif beneath it
What makes your ears so big? – To hear the better, my child, etc
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 questionRounds. Stories which begin over and over again and repeatFormulistic frameworks – miscellaneous

wander