μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Cooking processes misunderstood.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd misunderstandings. · Physical phenomena misunderstood. · view the constellation · filed as J1813

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Filed under Physical phenomena misunderstood.

10 finer motifs beneath it
Mushrooms shrink in water. Fool kills his wife because he thinks that she has eaten part of them Boiling milk thought to be overflowing. Simpleton lets it run over Boiling pumpkin thought to be talking Boiling pot on the floor thought to be self-cooking Fish dancing about in cooking pot appears to be many. Cook eats one; none left Handful of black pepper taken into mouth instead of cooking it in food Savory tea. The peasant entertains a priest at tea. Making it, puts in all the tea, six pounds of sugar, a piece of bacon, etc Sheep's head has eaten dumplings. Small boy is at home to watch the dinner. Runs into church, calls out to his mother that the sheep's head has eaten all the dumplings (or butted them out of the pot) All the beans cooked for one meal. They fill the room Numskull thinks boiling pot is threatening him: breaks pot
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Animal cries misunderstood Other sounds misunderstood Numskull stays till he has finished. As he is making water he hears a brook flowing and mistakes what it is. He waits for a day and a half Did the calf eat the man? A fool, liking the shoes on the feet of a man hanged on a gallows, cuts off the swollen feet in order to carry off the shoes. In the room in which he sleeps that night is a newborn calf. The next morning the man takes the shoes but leaves the feet. Peasants agree that the calf has eaten the man all but the feet. They burn the house to destroy the calf Fool thinks gold is being destroyed when snails crawl over it Fool thinks belly is speaking to him; stabs himself. Other animals are shouting at him Animal's action misunderstood Physical phenomena misunderstood – miscellaneous

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