μῦθοι Mythoi
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Filed under Treatment of difficult guests.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Wife prepares the pestle. Tells guests husband uses it against guests. They flee. Tells husband they left because she refused to give them pestle. Husband pursues to give them the pestle, but they run the faster. (Cf. K2137.)Servants touch cooking pot. Food being considered unclean then, guests depart empty but unwitting of true reason
Filed beside it
The guest who could not keep warm. He keeps calling for more bed clothes. The host finally piles a ladder, a trough, etc., on top of him until he calls for helpGuests make impossible demands of host: host's representative forces guests to leave by sending them on difficult questBread baked with onions for an undesirable guestProper food for ox and ass. Guests call each other ox and ass. Host offers green grass for the first and fodder for the secondWhen hints do not get rid of unwelcome guests, force must be used. Thus man treats his sons-in-lawA sham fight to frighten away the guestsPriest frightens away parasitic guests. Tells them he has that morning confessed man with plague

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