μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Animals or objects kept warm.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd disregard of facts. · Animals or objects treated as if human. · Absurd sympathy for animals or objects. · view the constellation · filed as J1873

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Filed under Absurd sympathy for animals or objects.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Fool makes shoes for animals as well as men, since he expects a cold winter Cloak given to a stone to keep it warm Warming the stove with wool King orders houses built to keep howling jackals warm in winter. Rascal misappropriates funds
Filed beside it
Filling cracks with butter. Numskull sees cracks in the ground and feels so sorry for them that he greases them with the butter he is taking home Creaking limbs. Numskull hears limbs creaking in the wind. He is sorry for them and holds them apart. While he is caught between them his enemies take advantage of him Relieving the beast of burden Objects ascribed human feelings Absurd sympathy for animals or objects – miscellaneous

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