μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

"Love like Salt." Girl compares her love for her father to salt. Experience teaches him the value of salt.

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · Enigmatic statements. · view the constellation · filed as H592.1

Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys. Cf. Shakespeare's King Lear.
  • general *Type 923
  • general *BP III 305 n. 2, IV 407
  • general *Hartland FLJ IV 309
  • general *DeCock Studien en Essays 4f.
  • general Cosquin Contes Indiens 103ff.
  • general Köhler Aufsätze 14
Within the index

Filed under Enigmatic statement made clear by experience.

1 finer motif beneath it
"Love like wind in hot sun." Husband offended but later learns wife's meaning
Filed beside it
Poison in nectar: wife who betrays husband to his enemies Nectar in poison: mistress who saves her lover Dogs in human shape: friends who seduce man's wife Donkey ruling a kingdom: king condemning man unjustly
Carried in tale types

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