μῦθοι Mythoi
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Filed under Absurd ignorance.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Fool cannot tell sex of nudes, since they have no clothes onFoolish girl ignorant of what is happening at her first menses
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Hero does not learn his name until after first adventureThe city person ignorant of the farmIgnorance of certain foodsWhy the pigs shriek. The sheep does not understand why the pig being carried to slaughter shrieksLayman's ignorance of medicineFool cannot tell his right hand in the darkFools and the unknown animalFoolish lover ignorant of mistress's flawsIgnorance of religious mattersPriests (schoolmasters) ignorant of LatinThe countryman in the great worldIgnorance of datesIgnorance of marriage relationsIgnorance of readingThe archbishop's wife and family. Fool asks what he is to talk about when guests arrive. Is told: "Their wives and family." He asks the archbishop about his family. (Cf. J2461.2.)Absurd ignorance of the use of spectacles
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