μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Small priest covered with large hat thought to be a hat.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd misunderstandings. · One thing mistaken for another. · Animal or person mistaken for something else. · view the constellation · filed as J1763.1

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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.

  • general Nouvelles Récréations No. 37.
Within the index

Filed under Person thought to be an object.

Filed beside it
Girl mistaken for stoneSleeping soldier thought to be recumbent statue in chapel

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