μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

The Esdras chain: stronger and strongest, wine, king, woman, truth.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Cumulative tales. · Chains with interdependent members. · view the constellation · filed as Z42.1

Cited in the index
  • general *Taylor JAFL XLVI 85 No. 2031A, Hdwb. d. Märchens II 184b
  • general DeCock Volkssage 35f.
  • general Oesterley No. 258
  • general Köhler-Bolte II 55. Jewish: Neuman.
Within the index

Filed under Stronger and Strongest. The frost-bitten foot. Mouse perforates wall, wall resists wind, wind dissolves cloud, cloud covers sun, sun thaws frost, frost breaks foot.

Filed beside it
Abraham learns to worship God. At nightfall Abraham worships a star, then the moon, then the sun, and finally gives up idolatry Brahmin worships idol and sets sacrifices before it daily. Rat devours offerings and he sets it up as his idol as a being more powerful than his idol. When cat devours rat, he worships it instead. His wife accidentally kills the cat, so he sets her up to worship. He happens to slap her and she loses consciousness. Thereafter he worships himself as most powerful after all
Carried in tale types

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