μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Numskull (female devil) thinks her pubic hair has been telling her lies and pulls it out together with the skin.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd misunderstandings. · Inappropriate action from misunderstanding. · view the constellation · filed as J1842.1

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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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
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Filed under Useless surgical operation from misunderstanding.

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Fool cannot answer as his mouth is full; thought to have an abscess in cheeks, allows them to be cut openBird protruding from king's stomach cut out with swords: king killedChild's stomach split open to cure him of wandering

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