μῦθοι Mythoi
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  • IcelandicBoberg.
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Animal cries misunderstoodOther sounds misunderstoodCooking processes misunderstoodNumskull 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 halfDid 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 calfFool thinks belly is speaking to him; stabs himself. Other animals are shouting at himAnimal's action misunderstoodPhysical phenomena misunderstood – miscellaneous

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