μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

The value of a blow. A judge awards damages of a penny against a friend of his for giving a blow. The defendant goes to get the money and is gone long. Meanwhile the plaintiff gives the judge a blow and tells him to use the penny as damages.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever persons and acts. · Cleverness in the law court. · Cleverness in the lawcourt – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as J1193.2

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • India*Thompson-Balys.
  • general *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 254 No. 172
  • general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 718
Within the index

Filed under Clever interpretation of judge's statement.

1 finer motif beneath it
The Court keeps the change. Man is fined half-ducat. Judge has no change. Defendant strikes judge for the change
Filed beside it
Killing the fly on the judge's nose. The judge has told the boy that he should kill a fly wherever he sees one
Carried in tale types

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