μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

  • ItalianBasile Pentamerone I No. 1.
  • general *Type 563
  • general **Aarne JSFO XXVII 1-96
  • general BP I 349ff.
Within the index

Filed under Numskull talks about his secret instructions and thus allows himself to be cheated. Told not to serve a man with a red beard or to keep sausage for the long winter, etc.

Filed beside it
Boy talks about his secret instructions and brings his father's theft to light. He is to avoid his companions lest they smell what he has been eating
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