μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

  • Jewish*Neuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys.
  • general **De Vries FFC LXXIII 365ff.
  • general *Encyc. Rel. Ethics s. v. "Ahiqar"
  • general *Marc Studien zur vgl. Littgesch. II 393f., III 52
  • general **Meissner Das Märchen vom weisen Achikar (Leipzig, 1917)
Within the index

Filed under Solvers of riddles.

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Clever peasant girl asked riddles by kingKing and abbot. King propounds three riddles to abbot to answer on pain of death. Herdsman disguises as abbot and answers questionsSolomon and Marcolf. Witty questions and answers between youth and servantKing and clever youth. King asks questions; youth returns riddling answersKing and peasant vie in riddling questions and answersDruid as solver of riddlesCleric as solver of riddlesClever prince interprets enigmatic statementsSaint as solver of riddles

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