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

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Useless surgical operation from misunderstanding.

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

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