μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 15references

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.

  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • JewishNeuman
  • PersianCarnoy 342 (99,999)
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • ChineseEberhard 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 nineNine whirlpools of the world(Nine) wonders of IrelandNine materials used in building Tower of Babel
Filed beside it
Odd numbers – formulisticFormulistic numbers: a number plus one (101, 1001, etc.)Formulistic number: threeFormulistic number: fourFormulistic number: fiveFormulistic number: sixFormulistic number: sevenFormulistic 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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