The constellation
K2135 The complaint about bad breath: trouble for the king's favorite. A steward advises the courtier to hold his head away when serving the king, since the king objects to his bad breath. He then tells the king that the courtier holds his head back to avoid the king's bad breath
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- Trouble-makers · K2130 entry
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- Trickster makes two friends each suspicious of the other's intentions · K2131 entry
- False message of love carried to hero and maiden by troublemaker · K2132 entry
- Servant lays skin of dead dog in the bed of his mistress and master. Makes trouble between them · K2134 entry
- Officers praised in reverse from their real merit: trouble for them and their master · K2136 entry
- The priest's guest and the eaten chickens. The servant who has eaten the chickens tells the guest to flee because the priest is going to cut off his ears, and he tells the priest that the guest has stolen two chickens The priest runs after him · K2137 entry
- Trouble-maker in night-lodging. Comes riding a wolf and asks for hospitality. Wolf kills sheep. Beehive in bed. Bees sting family and cause father to kill son · K2138 entry
- Jealous courtiers shake king lion's confidence in his councillor, the virtuous jackal, by accusing the jackal of stealing the lion's food · K2141 entry
- Two persons separately informed about each other's death · K2142 entry