μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

The transformed golden pumpkin. Borrower of golden pumpkin returns a brass pumpkin and claims that the gold has turned to brass. The lender takes the borrower's son and returns with an ape. He claims that the boy has turned into an ape.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever practical retorts. · One absurdity rebukes another. · view the constellation · filed as J1531.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general Köhler-Bolte I 533
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Filed under Borrower's absurdities.

1 finer motif beneath it
Mill has given birth to horse. Jackal as judge comes late. "Tank of water caught fire."
Filed beside it
The iron-eating mice. Trustee claims that mice have eaten the iron scales confided to him. The host abducts the trustee's son and says that a falcon has carried him offThe pot has a child and dies. A borrower returns a pot along with a small one saying that the pot has had a young one. The pots are accepted. He borrows the pot a second time and keeps it. He sends word that the pot has died
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