Clever girl — Mythoi

Motif

Clever girl.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever persons and acts. · Clever persons. · view the constellation · filed as J1111

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Buddhist The Jataka, or Stories of the Buddha's Former Births , Book III
Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 34 34.— CLEVEE ELSIE.
Literary Crystallization Masnavi i Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets (abridged) , Book 5, Story 6
Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 16
Chinese Myths & Legends of China , Chapter XV

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic Boberg
Jewish Neuman
India *Thompson-Balys
Chinese Graham.
general **DeVries FFC LXXIII
general *Chauvin VII 118 No. 387
general Köhler-Bolte II 602 No. 1
general *BP III 202
general Bloomfield JAOS XXXVI 65. Irish myth: *Cross

Within the index

Filed under Clever persons.

6 finer motifs beneath it

Princess skillful in argument Illegitimate daughter of trickster inherits father's ability to dupe others Clever daughter-in-law Clever peasant daughter Clever minister's daughter Clever maidservant

Filed beside it

Clever wife Clever boy Clever servant. (Cf. J1111.6, J1341, J1561.4, N25, P360, W111.2.) Clever professions Foolish person becomes clever Animal as trickster Clever bird Clever younger generation Clever court jester

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