μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

The gift of the fool. Of three brothers the shoemaker makes shoes for the queen and princess; the tailor, clothes; the fool – children.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever verbal retorts (repartee). · Repartee concerning the parentage of children. · view the constellation · filed as J1272

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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.

  • LithuanianBalys Index No. 654A.
  • general Type 1548*
Within the index

Filed under Repartee concerning the parentage of children.

Filed beside it
Eunuch visits augurer to see whether he is to be a father. "When I look at the livers, you are to be a father. When I look at you, I see that you are not even a man."Children by day and by night. Artist paints beautiful children but his own are ugly. One kind, he says, are made by day, the other by nightHis father has been in Rome. A young man comes to Rome who looks like the emperor. Latter asks him if he mother has ever been in Rome. No, but my father has been here often. (Not son but brother.)The child born too soonRepartee regarding the parentage of children – miscellaneous
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