μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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 mythCross
  • EnglishGawayne and the Green Knight lines 623ff.
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • N. Am. Indian (Klikitat)Jacobs U Wash II 32ff.
  • general Hdwb. d. Abergl. s. v. "Funf"
Within the index

Filed under Formulistic numbers.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Formulistic numbers: fivefold (e.g. 50, 500)Five sighs we should vent over our sinsFive wounds of Christ. [Inadvertant duplication of V211.5.]
Filed beside it
Odd numbers – formulisticFormulistic numbers: a number plus one (101, 1001, etc.)Formulistic number: threeFormulistic number: fourFormulistic 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.)

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