μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Formulistic number: nine (99, 900, 999, 99,999, etc.).

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Other formulistic motifs. · view the constellation · filed as Z71.6

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Jewish Neuman
  • Persian Carnoy 342 (99,999)
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 56, 206 No. 154
  • Philippine (Tinguian) Cole 56ff.
  • Africa (Wakweli) Bender 76f.
  • general *Hdwb. d. Märchens I 419b, nn. 378–407
  • general Grimm Deutsche Mythologie I 505f.
  • general Ohrt Danske Trylleformler I 196ff.
  • general Agrell Runornas Talmystik 70ff.
  • general Grimm Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer I 84, 295
  • general Wundt Völkerpsychologie V 82, VI 350
  • general Hdwb. d. Abergl. I 1397
  • general Wuttke Volksaberglaube, register. – Irish myth: *Cross
Within the index

Filed under Formulistic numbers.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Three times nine Nine whirlpools of the world (Nine) wonders of Ireland Nine materials used in building Tower of Babel
Filed beside it
Odd numbers – formulistic Formulistic numbers: a number plus one (101, 1001, etc.) Formulistic number: three Formulistic number: four Formulistic number: five Formulistic number: six Formulistic number: seven Formulistic number: eleven Formulistic number: twelve Formulistic number: thirteen Formulistic number: sixteen Formulistic number: thirty. (Cf. Z71.1.0.1.) Formulistic number: forty Formulistic 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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