μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general Christensen DF XLVII 181ff.
Within the index
6 finer motifs beneath it
Counting wrong by not counting oneself. Numskulls conclude that one of their number is drownedAre there nine or ten geese? Ten men are called in; each is to take a goose. If all have a goose, there are ten. One man is left without one. Numskull: "You should have taken one before they were all gone."Three girls distressed by seemingly impossible task of going and returning together – one in half month, other in fifteen days, other in seven plus eight daysThe interrupted calculation. While the merchant is making calculations, he asks the age of his youngest daughter, the elder daughter, and the mother, and always adds this to the number he has reachedKeeping the measure by stretching out the arms. Numskull goes to buy goods for his wifeNumskulls buy things in common: each pays full price

wander