μῦθοι Mythoi
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  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
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Filed under King: What is your mother doing? Youth: She does for another what the latter cannot do for her. (Lays out a corpse.)

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King: What is your mother doing? Youth: She shows the light of the world to one who has not yet seen it. (Assists at a birth.)King: What is your mother doing? Youth: She is baking the bread we ate last week. (To pay back borrowed bread.) (Cf. H583.2.4.)King: What is your mother doing? Youth: She cuts off the heads of the well to cure the sick. (Kills chickens to feed her sick mother.)King: What is your mother doing? Youth: She drives away the hungry and compels the filled to eat. (Drives away the hungry hens and stuffs the geese.)King: What are your mother and father doing? Girl: Mother is separating earth (being a midwife), and father is mixing earth (at a funeral)
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