μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • general *Taylor JAFL XLVI 81 No. 2014, Hdwb. d. Märchens II 175b.
Within the index

Filed under Cumulative tales – miscellaneous.

1 finer motif beneath it
The house is burned down. – That is too bad. – That is not bad at all, my wife burned it down. – That is good. – That is not good, etc
Filed beside it
Bird avenges caged mate. Builds cart, yokes frogs to it, arms himself with piece of reed, and proclaims war with king. Collects cat, ants, rope, club, and river. He is put by king into fowl house; cat eats up fowls. In stable rope and club beat up horses. In elephant-house ants get into their brains and kill them all. Tied to king's bed, river floods king in his bed. King gives bird back his mateThe animals with queer names: as hen (henny-penny), cock (cocky-locky), goose (goosey-poosey). (Cf. Z32.2.1.)
Carried in tale types

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