μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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  • general *De Vries FFC LXXIII 116ff.
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Filed under King: What is your father doing? Youth: He is in the vineyard and is doing good and bad. (He prunes vines and sometimes cuts good and sometimes lets bad ones stay.)

Filed beside it
King: What is your father doing? Youth: Makes many out of few. (Sows grain.)King: What is your father doing? Youth: Makes better from good. (Hedges his field.)King: What is your father doing? Youth: Cuts wood which was burnt last year. (To pay old debts.)King: What is your father doing? Youth: He fences thorns with thorns. (Eggplant garden fenced with thorns.)
Carried in tale types

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