μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

  • Spanish ExemplaKeller
  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general Cowell Jātaka I 85 No. 33
  • general Benfey Panchatantra II 156ff., 304f.
  • general Bødker Exempler 290 Nos. 45–46
Within the index

Filed under Strength in unity.

1 finer motif beneath it
Captured elephants pull all at once and escape from net
Filed beside it
The quarreling sons and the bundle of twigs. Peasant puts twigs together and cannot break them. Separately they are easily broken. His sons apply the lessonFight of lions and bulls. Lion succeeds only when bulls separateDog leader fears defeat because his forces are of different breeds. Wolves are all of one kindUnited cocks defeat partridge. When they quarrel they are defeated

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