μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
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Filed under One absurdity rebukes another.

1 finer motif beneath it
[First Edition: J1533.1. Absurdity: mill has given birth to calf. – Oats planted on sea-shore for fish to eat.]
Filed beside it
Borrower's absurditiesAdulteress's absurdity rebukedDeer captured in bird-net: water flows upstream. One partner claims a deer he has captured in his bird-net. The other pretends to be watching water flow upstreamRuler's absurdity rebukedOne absurdity rebukes another – miscellaneous
Travels with
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
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