μῦθοι Mythoi
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Filed under Remedies worse than the disease.

3 finer motifs beneath it
The cat to guard the cheese. A farmer troubled with mice eating his cheese places a cat in the tub with the cheese. She eats the mice and the cheesePursuing the rabbit who harmed the garden. Peasant asks a nobleman's help against a rabbit. The nobleman chases the rabbit on horseback for five days and ruins the peasant's cropHouse burned down to get rid of rats. (Cf. J2102.4.1.)
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Getting rid of the cat. In a land in which cats are not known, one is bought at a great price. It eats many mice. By misunderstanding, they think the cat is a monster. In order to get rid of it they set the house on fireExpensive means of being rid of insectsMoving the fireplace. When it gives too much heat numskulls decide to move it instead of putting out the fireProtecting the prince's slumber. To keep croaking frogs from disturbing him, the fools shoot at the frogs all nightMan kills self to make quarrelsome wife a widowTaming the bull by cutting off his horns. It makes him the more violentPunishing the dog by feeding him. A man is bitten by a dog. On the advice of an old woman he rubs bread on the wound and gives it to the dog. All dogs will bite him if they thus get double rewardGray hair cured by pulling it out so that the person is baldGetting the calf's head out of the pot. A calf gets its head caught in a pot. A fool cuts off the calf's head and then breaks the pot to get it outSnakes in pond to be killed: eels also killedFools take fatal overdose of medicineRemedies worse than the disease – miscellaneous

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