μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • Italian NovellaRotunda
  • West IndiesFlowers 474.
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Filed under Wisdom learned from children.

2 finer motifs beneath it
The wine needs no further water. Guests asks small daughter of innkeeper for water to put into his wine. She says, "You will not have to do that for mother poured a whole tubful into the cask today."Adulteress betrayed by little child's remark
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Ungrateful son reproved by naïve action of his own son: preparing for old age. Man gives his old father half a carpet to keep him warm. Child keeps the other half and tells his father that he is keeping it for him when he grows oldNaïve remark of child: "You forgot to strike mother." A father in habit of beating his wife remarks that he has forgot something. The child says, "I know. You forgot to strike mother."Wisdom of child decides lawsuit. King in disguise sees child's game which represents the caseLearning the virtue of patience from children. When their meals are stolen, they quietly search for them

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