μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

  • JapaneseIkeda.
  • general *Type 853
  • general BP I 201
  • general *Wesselski Der Islam XXII (1934) 114 n. 4
Within the index

Filed under Wit combat. Test in repartee.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Princess defeated in repartee by means of objects accidentally picked up. E. g., Hero: What red lips you have! Princess: There is fire inside. – Hero: Then boil this egg (producing egg)King defeated in repartee by boy, who thus wins girl. Boy: "Who would give a man a bath, feed him his rice, and then bring him the tamal-pan to chew?" King: "No one but a wife." Boy claims minister's daughterPrincess offered to man who can defeat her in argument
Filed beside it
Test: making senseless remarks. King brought to say, "What is the sense in that?"Contest in wishingWit combat among three sisters for additional dowry. Replies to husbands when their premarital pregnancy is noticedContest in scolding as introduction to battleLiterary contest won by deception: he who will be first silenced is the loser. When the false teacher answers in nonsense syllables, the true scholar is speechless and so loses contest
Carried in tale types

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