μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Distress over imagined troubles of unborn child. (Clever Else.) Girl sent to cellar to get wine to serve the suitor begins weeping over the troubles of the child which she might have if she married the suitor. Her parents join her. Meanwhile the suitor leaves.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Absurd plans. · view the constellation · filed as J2063

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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.

  • Jewishbin Gorion Born Judas IV 55, 277
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • Jamaica*Beckwith MAFLS XVII 285 No. 125.
  • general *Type 1450
  • general *BP I 335
  • general *Clouston Noodles 191
  • general Christensen DF L 35
Within the index

Filed under Absurd plans. Air-castles.

1 finer motif beneath it
Queen grieves herself to death over fate of her children after her death
Filed beside it
Quarrel and fight over details of air-castlesMan plants hedge: sheep will leave wool on the thorns and bring richesTo build a palace in the sky: hawk as architect is let fly in the airFools cast lots for royal purple of queen who is still aliveAir-castle shattered by lack of forethoughtFoolish illustration of argumentServant plans to deceive his master by refusing to eatFoolish waitingSacrifice equal to the reward
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