μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Half price for half a shave. A man asks to be shaved at half price. The barber shaves one side. He must pay the other half for the rest of the shave.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever practical retorts. · The cheater cheated. · view the constellation · filed as J1522.1

Cited in the index
  • general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 601.
Within the index

Filed under Rebuke to the stingy.

Filed beside it
Stingy man rebuked when his children are feasted in his absence. They think he has been responsible and honor him. He reforms

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