μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 12references

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.

  • Irish myth*Cross
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • ChineseGraham
  • Africa (Bulu)Krug 120f. (Luba): DeClerq ZsKS IV 201
  • S. Am. Indian (Chiriguano)Métraux RMLP XXXIII 166.
  • general **R. Mueller Die Zahl Drei in Sage, Dichtung u. Kunst (Teschen, 1903)
  • general Wundt Völkerpsychologie VI 341
  • general Diels Sibyllinische Blätter 40
  • general Aly Volksmärchen bei Herodot 240: Hdwb. d. Märchens I 412ff.
  • general *H. Usener "Dreiheit" Rheinisches Museum f. Philologie N. F. LVIII (1903) 1–47, 161–208
  • general *Fb "tre". – Breton: Sébillot Incidents s. v. "trois"
Within the index

Filed under Formulistic numbers.

20 finer motifs beneath it
TriadsFormulistic numbers: threefold (e.g. three times thirty)Formula: three days and three nightsThree chairs in heaven for three saintsThree strains of (fairy) musicThree things that lead to hell (heaven)Three innocent children: Ananias, Zacharias, MisaelThree LentsThree MariesThree orders of Irish saintsThree seas surrounding the earthThree sods that none may escape: "The sod of his birth, the sod of his death, the sod of his burying."Three whom Christ raised from the deadThree spiritual gifts of GodThree persons who spoke immediately after birthThree weak things that are the strongestThree worst things in IrelandThree reasons why men should condemn wealthThree cries of the worldThree bad stories of the saints of Ireland
Filed beside it
Odd numbers – formulisticFormulistic numbers: a number plus one (101, 1001, etc.)Formulistic number: fourFormulistic number: fiveFormulistic number: sixFormulistic number: sevenFormulistic number: nine (99, 900, 999, 99,999, etc.)Formulistic number: elevenFormulistic number: twelveFormulistic number: thirteenFormulistic number: sixteenFormulistic number: thirty. (Cf. Z71.1.0.1.)Formulistic number: fortyFormulistic number: sixty. (Cf. Z71.4.)Formulistic number: seventy-two. (Cf. Z71.8.)Formulistic number: seventy-seven. (Cf. Z71.5.0.1.)
Travels with
Three explanations. When explanation of phenomenon is asked, three explanations are offered of which the last is always the true one. (Cf. Z71.1.)

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