μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • HinduPenzer V 132 n. 2, 133, IX 155f.
  • general *Fischer-Bolte Reise der Söhne Giaffers 209ff.
  • general cf. Nouvelles de Sens No. 9.
Within the index

Filed under Practical retorts: borrowers and lenders.

11 finer motifs beneath it
Imagined intercourse, imagined payment. A woman demands money for a visit which she dreams of having had from a merchant. She is shown the money in a mirrorImagined penance for imagined sin. A penitent confesses that a plan to sin had entered his mind. Priest tells him that the thought is as good as the deed. Assesses four florins as penance. Penitent says that he had only had it in his mind to give the florins; he must take the thought for the deedSinger repaid with promise of reward: words for wordsDirections for getting pay given in return for directions for healingSubstitute for candle repaid with substitute for money. A monk gives a man a stick instead of the candle the man has wanted to burn before a holy picture. The monk says that it will have the same effect as if the candle were burned. The man takes out his purse and lets the monk touch itThe hare at third remove. A man receives a present of a hare. Later a crowd comes to him for entertainment saying that they are friends of the man who presented the hare. This happens a second time. He serves them clear water. "It is the soup from the soup of the hare."Imagined ownership: derived from a dream. Man claims ownership of bulls because he has dreamed of them. He is given their shadowsImagined color. Clerk tells person to imagine that blue cloth is green. The customer walks out without paying. The clerk asks for payment; the customer tells clerk to imagine he has been paidHalf of money thrown into tank. The monkey to the grocer: "You sold half water and half milk."The priest administers to a man sick with infectious disease. Shows him the Host through window, and says: "Have hope and imagine you receive it." The man shows the priest a coin through the window, and repeats the same phrase"Here is half of picture and you must imagine other half." Jester later redecorates house in fragments of pictures
Filed beside it
Loans refusedLender repays borrower for deceptive loanMiscellaneous retorts concerning borrowing and lending

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