μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

The 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.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever practical retorts. · One absurdity rebukes another. · view the constellation · filed as J1531.3

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Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

  • RumanianSchullerus FFC LXXVIII No. 1705*
  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general *BP II 372 n. 2
  • general *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 213 No. 35
  • general DeVries FFC LXXIII 273 n. 1
Within the index

Filed under Borrower's absurdities.

Filed beside it
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 apeThe 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 off
Travels with
Absurdities concerning birth of animals, or men. (Cf. J1531.3.)
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