μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 9references

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.

  • GreekFox 98
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • OceanicDixon 131, 132 n. 2, 133
  • TuamotuStimson MS (z-G. 3/1332
  • MarquesasHandy 105
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 320 n. 156, (California): Gayton and Newman 69.
  • general T-G. 3/818
  • general z-G. 3/1122
  • general z-G. 13/221)
Within the index

Filed under Brothers as heroes.

Filed beside it
Warriors identically equipped (brothers)Lodge-Boy and Thrown-Away as joint adventurers. Of brothers (sometimes twins taken from body of slain mother) one is abandoned and becomes wild. Later he joins his brotherHero "son of seven mothers". Seven mothers each with a child imprisoned. Six eat their children to keep from starving. Seventh does not. He rescues all the mothers and becomes heroSupernatural origin of hero: magic conception. (Cf. T510.)Eldest brother as hero
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