μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Wife carried up tree to sky in bag in husband's teeth. She asks question and he drops her when he answers.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Foolish disregard of personal danger. · view the constellation · filed as J2133.5.1

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  • general Clouston Noodles 48, 51.
Within the index

Filed under Men hang down in a chain until top man spits on his hands. They all fall.

1 finer motif beneath it
Servant carrying master across stream answers question with gesture that throws master off
Filed beside it
Numskull going to heaven holding on tail of divine elephant, looses his hold to make gesture. He and all holding on to him fallThree men in a tree sing song and clap hands: they fall down and die

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