μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Three-legged pot sent to walk home.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd disregard of facts. · Animals or objects treated as if human. · Animals or objects treated as if human – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as J1881.1.3

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Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

  • EnglandBaughman
  • Missouri FrenchCarrière
  • SpanishEspinosa III 147
  • N. Am. IndianThompson CColl II 417f.
  • general Clouston Noodles 36
  • general Field Pent Cuckoo 5
  • general *BP I 521 n. 1
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Filed under Object sent to go by itself.

Filed beside it
Cheeses thrown down to find their way homeOne cheese sent after another. Numskull lets one roll down hill; sends the other to bring it backTable thrown out of the sledge; to go home by itselfSpinning wheel is sent home by itself. The man asks his wife if it has arrived before him, finds that it has not. "I thought not. I came a shorter way."Sickle laid in field and told to cut grainFool sends letter home by a flooded river
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