μῦθοι Mythoi
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Endurance test: long dancing. Girl tires out many partnersTest: enduring hardship. Tested by making girl serve woman who has leprosy, etcEndurance test: scalding mush scattered on heroine's naked body; rasp-tongued dogs lick woundsTest: sleeping naked on floor in cold. (Suitor test.)Test: sewing clothes into boy's hands and tearing them off together with the skinEndurance test: hero maintains silence in the snake pitHero pursues and kills fugitive in spite of bleeding woundsTest: long praying

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