μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Ehod mi yodea (One; who knows?); Le dodici parole della verità, Las doce palabras retorneadas. The numbers from one to twelve are brought into relation with various objects, often of religious significance.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Cumulative tales. · Cumulative tales. · view the constellation · filed as Z22

Filed across the traditions
  • Russian Andrejev No. 812B*
  • Spanish Boggs FFC XC 156 No. 2045*
  • Jewish *Neuman.
  • general **Espinosa Revista de Filologia Española XVII 390ff.
  • general *Taylor JAFL XLVI 79 No. 2010
  • general *Greenleaf Ballads and Sea-songs of Newfoundland (Cambridge, Mass., 1933) 93 No. 41
  • general **Hdwb. d. Märchens II 171ff.
  • general *Newell "The Carol of the Twelve Numbers" JAFL IV (1891) 215–220
  • general Köhler-Bolte III 370 n. 2
  • general BP III 15 n. – Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 2010*
Within the index

Filed under Cumulative tales. Tales arranged in chains. (Kettenmärchen.)

2 finer motifs beneath it
The Twelve Days (Gifts) of Christmas: 1 partridge, 2 turtle-doves, 3 French hens, 4 colly birds, 5 gold rings, 6 geese, 7 swans, 8 maids, 9 drummers, 10 pipers, 11 ladies, 12 lords The Twelve kinds of Food: 1 partridge, 2 turtledoves, 3 woodpigeons, 4 ducks, 5 rabbits, 6 hares, 7 hounds, 8 sheep, 9 oxen, 10 turkeys, 11 hams, 12 cheeses
Filed beside it
Cumulative nonsense tales Chains based on numbers How the Rich Man paid his Servant (Lönen hos den rike man). A farmer pays his servant in the first year a hen, in the second a cock, goose, goat, cow, horse, .... girl. farmstead The forgetful man counts the days of the week. On Monday they go to mill, etc. He thus discovers that it is Sunday Fly forgets her name; asks woodcutter, axe, tree, etc., in vain. Finally foal in mare's belly says her name is "fly"
Carried in tale types

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