μῦθοι Mythoi
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  • general *Type 1242
  • general Christensen DF XLVII 224 No. 86.
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Each of two persons wants to sleep in the middle. (Sometimes solved by placing an object on one side of the bed.)A profitable fight: three for one! A priest boasts of his profitable fight with the peasants, where he has received three blows for every one givenThe seventh cake satisfies. Fool regrets that he had not eaten number seven first since that was the one that brought satisfactionTwenty better than ten. A numskull is asked how many daily prayers (Moslem) there are. "Twenty." – "There are only four." – "I said that there are twenty; that is even better."Selling his half of the house. A man owns half a house. He wants to sell his half so as to get money to buy the other half and thus have a whole houseDentist duped to pull out two teeth for one because of the expensivenessMan prefers small oysters, since he will get more to the hundredNumskull finds that one feather makes a hard pillow, thinks a sackful would be unbearable
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