μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • general *Hdwb. d. Abergl. s. v. "Zahl"
  • general Penzer I 242 n. 3, 255 n. 2, VI 14 n. 1
  • general Feilberg Dania II 185ff.
Within the index

Filed under Other formulistic motifs.

18 finer motifs beneath it
Odd numbers – formulisticFormulistic numbers: a number plus one (101, 1001, etc.)Formulistic number: threeFormulistic 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.)Formulistic numbers – miscellaneous
Filed beside it
Never. Various ways of expressing this idea. When black sheep turn white, when a dry branch sprouts, etcProverbial simileFormulas signifying fruitlessness, e.g. like putting a withe about sand, like mocking a beggarThree explanations. When explanation of phenomenon is asked, three explanations are offered of which the last is always the true one. (Cf. Z71.1.)Color formulasFormulas based on the yearA day and a nightFormula: as many children as holes in a sieveFormulistic exaggerationsTestament willing rewards and punishments. Conventional ending of a story
Travels with
Magic numbers. (Cf. Z71.)

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