μῦθοι Mythoi
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Filed under Captivity preferred to death.

1 finer motif beneath it
Trickster overhears man praying for death to take him; the trickster appears at man's house, usually in disguise, says he is God (or the devil). The man tells him to take his wife (or he runs away). (Compare C11 for a similar situation in which Death appears.)
Filed beside it
Escaped lamb delivers himself to shepherd rather than to slaughterDiscontented ass longs for death but changes mind when he sees skins of dead asses at a fair
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