μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 14references

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.

  • BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "sept"
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • SpanishEspinosa Jr. Nos. 157, 178
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera I 457
  • ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 49, 162, Graham
  • N. Am. Indian (Seneca)Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 93 No. 6, 149 No. 24, 154 No. 26
  • Africa (Cameroon)Mansfield 224, 236, (Togo): Einstein 7, (Congo): Weeks Cannibals 217.
  • general *Nyrop Dania II 126
  • general Grimm Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer I 292
  • general Wundt Völkerpsychologie VI 349
  • general *Roscher Die Sieben- und Neunzahl im Kultus und Mythus der Griechen (Leipzig, 1904)
  • general Aly Volksmärchen bei Herodot 241
  • general *Fb "syv". Irish: *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 45, 100, Beal XXI 316, 332
Within the index

Filed under Formulistic numbers.

9 finer motifs beneath it
Formulistic numbers: sevenfold (e.g. 49, 70, 70,000, 7,777). (Cf. Z71.15.)Seven brothers and one sisterJourney beyond seven seasSeven year's peace with no killing of menKing for seven yearsExile for seven yearsSeven as a number in religious and social recordsKing with seven wives and seven mares. The seven wives pregnant for seven years, the seven mares seven years in foalSeven brothers marry seven sisters
Filed beside it
Odd numbers – formulisticFormulistic numbers: a number plus one (101, 1001, etc.)Formulistic number: threeFormulistic number: fourFormulistic number: fiveFormulistic number: sixFormulistic 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
Seventh daughter predestined to be magician. (Cf. Z71.5.)Heptads. Laws made in groups of seven. (Cf. Z71.5.)

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