μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.
Within the index

Filed under Other formulistic motifs.

7 finer motifs beneath it
A year and a day. (Cf. Z71.0.2.)Seven years, seven months, seven daysSeven (three) years between feastsSeven years as length of course in schoolEvery third year as period of tributeThree hundred and sixty-fiveTwelve years and thirteen days
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 formulasFormulistic numbersA day and a nightFormula: as many children as holes in a sieveFormulistic exaggerationsTestament willing rewards and punishments. Conventional ending of a story

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