μῦθοι Mythoi
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Person made to believe that he is deadNaked person made to believe that he is clothedLayman made to believe that he is a monkWife persuades husband that she has returned immediately. She goes to a neighbor's to cook a fish. She is gone a week. She gets a new fish and cooks it and returns home with the hot fish. She convinces her husband of her short absenceHusband made to believe that his house has moved during his absence. The wife and her confederates transform the house into an inn with tables, signs, drinkers, etc. The husband cannot find his houseWell man made to believe that he is sickNumskull convinced that he is a thief. An article is stolen. Declared that whoever does not eat all his cheese is the thief. A stone is put in the numskull's cheese so that he cannot eat it all. He admits the theftMan made to believe that he is pregnant (has borne child)Drunken man made to believe that he has been to heaven and hell. He is dressed up as a rich lord and given rich food and drink. When put back into his own clothes he thinks that he has been to heavenNumskull believes that he is married to a man. Two men's hands joined in fun with words "I marry you." Fool thinks that he must get a bishop to annul the marriageWife persuades her husband to have a good tooth pulledHusband made to believe that yarn has changed to tow through his carelessness. Thus his lazy wife is relieved from spinningThe student from paradise. A student tells a woman that he comes from Paris. She understands him to say from paradise and gives him money and goods to take to her husbandMan who asks for good weather given a box full of hornets. He thinks that it is filled with the weatherThe moving church tower. To see whether the church is moving someone lays down his coat in front of it. It is stolen. They think that the church has passed over itNumskull with unimportant office boasts of itFool locked in dark room made to believe that it is continuous nightThe sledges turned in the direction of the journey. At night turned around by a jokerMaster persuaded to buy big fish since small ones creep out of all parts of his bodyThe stag with iron shoes. Hunters shoot a stag and hide it. Another who sees puts a dead ass in the bag instead. When the bag is opened, one cries, "Oh Jesus, we have shot a stag with iron shoes!"Jewess makes parents believe that she is to give birth to the Messiah. She bears a girlDupe persuaded that he is invisibleAdulteress makes husband believe that the birth of her mulatto child has been due to suggestionNear-sighted man persuaded by doctor that he can see +6 more

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