μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

There was a wee wee woman who had a wee wee cow, etc.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Cumulative tales. · Chains involving a single scene or event without interdependence among the individual actors. · view the constellation · filed as Z39.2

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

  • DanishKristensen Danske Dyrefabler 122ff. Nos. 230–37
  • RussianAndrejev No. 2015 I*.
  • general *Taylor JAFL XLVI 81 No. 2016, Hdwb. d. Märchens II 176a
  • general Jacobs English Fairy Tales 57
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Filed under Chains involving other events without interrelation of members.

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The goat who would not go home. One animal after another tries in vain to persuade the goat to go home. Finally a wolf (bee) bites him and drives him homeThe crow on the tarred bridge. His beak and tail alternately stick. (Endless.) (Cf. Z11.)Where have you been, goose? – In the fields. – What have you in your beak? – A knife. – etc. (Tile, water, ox, firewood, old woman, friars, mass, shirt.)The hen lays an egg, the mouse breaks it. Sorrowing over this mishap, all show extraordinary behavior; the master puts an end to it. Final formula: hen strips off feathers, rubbish heap catches fire, oak falls to ground, hare drowns self, magpie twists leg, ox breaks horns, river flows blood, maid breaks pails, housewife scatters dough. Master locks up wife and maid, goes to seek people more foolishMother ties bell on child; cat cuts it off. – Why did you cut off the bell? – Why did you lay the block here? – etcGirl left in tree by sisters: asks monkey, ape, bear, and tiger to put her down or else bite her. All refuse. Panther comes and devours herSmall grain-measure runs away when her husband beats her: succession of suitorsSeries of things acquired by mouse – "You cannot have this but you may have that instead," – etc. Clod – fish – cakes – kid – goat – drum – girl. Girl kills mouse accidentally
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