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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
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Filed under Foolish demands before death.

Filed beside it
His last request: a red cap. A man about to be hanged keeps asking for his red cap which he has left in prison. He has no thought of his real perilWholesome food for the day of hanging. A man about to be hanged is very particular about his bread lest it impair his healthHaving the head dressed before hanging. A man who has hurt his head in trying to hang himself has the head dressed by a doctor and then goes and hangs himself

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