μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Nature of a baby misunderstood.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd disregard of facts. · Fatal disregard of anatomy. · view the constellation · filed as J1911

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Filed under Fatal disregard of anatomy.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Numskull does not understand about baby's skull. Sticks needle through it Foolish mother does not understand how babies cry. Wrings the child's neck
Filed beside it
Horse taught to live without food. Dies Fool carries wife across stream head downwards and drowns her Fatal disregard of anatomy – miscellaneous

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