μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Talkative fools. · Talkative fools. · view the constellation · filed as J2355.2

Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
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
Fool loses magic objects by talking about them

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