μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Reinforcement of the request for alms. A clown asks for alms and receives nothing. He then throws pellets made of herbs at the steward, saying that there is great power in words, herbs, and stones: he has tried two of them and plans to try the third. He is given alms.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever practical retorts. · Practical retorts connected with almsgiving. · view the constellation · filed as J1581.2

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  • general Wesselski Mönchslatein 20 No. 14.
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Filed under Stingy almsgiving repaid.

Filed beside it
Poem for poem: all for all. A poet gives the emperor a poem, hoping for a reward The emperor later gives the poet a poem in return. The poet thereupon sends the emperor two pennies, saying that this is all the money he has. The emperor, seeing that he is defeated in the exchange, laughs and becomes the poet's friend
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
When the sweet fails try the bitter. Man pleads with thief who is stealing his figs. When pleading fails he brings him down from tree with stones. (Cf. J1581.2, T251.5.) Strength in words, in herbs, and in stones. When first two do not cure shrewish wife, the last does. (Cf. J1563.6, J1581.2, J2412.5.)

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