μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Man puts bag of meal on one side of saddle, balances it on the other side with a rock.

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 J1874.2

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
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.

  • U.S.Baughman.
Within the index

Filed under Relieving the beast of burden.

Filed beside it
Rider takes the meal-sack on his shoulder to relieve the ass of his burden
Carried in tale types

wander