μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • general Type 1270.
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Filed under Disregard of danger to objects (or animals).

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Drying snow on the stoveSunlight carried into windowless house in baskets. When this plan does not succeed, they gradually pull down the house to get lightPutting the fish aside for Easter. They are put in one big pool, but an eel eats them upGuarding chickens from the fox. Numskull ties their beaks and weights them down in the river with stonesNumskull to water roots of tree. Digs up the tree to find the rootsLooking for the hole. Numskull is to carry a can of oil with especial care since it has a little hole in it. In order to find the hole he turns the can about and lets all the oil run outDisregard of danger to objects or animals – miscellaneous
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