μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • general *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 212 No. 431.
Within the index

Filed under Disastrous following of instructions.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Shoving the child. Numskulls, told to shove the boy along if he is lazy about weeding, do so with their weeding-knives and kill himFeeding mother. Fool stuffs and kills her
Filed beside it
Feeding the pigs wet meal. The wife throws the meal into the well and the pigs after itPiling up the pottery. The woman breaks the pots into fragments and piles them upWashing the child. Fool uses boiling water and kills itClearing out the room. Fool throws out all the furnitureWashing the room. Fool floods itOh bother! put it on my head! Numskulls asking old woman where to put grain obey and smother herCutting at the plow. Literal fool told to cut at plow if it sticks on roots cuts at bullock's legs"Sew shirts for servants." Fool sews them to trees"Collect goats under tree." Fool piles up their carcassesFool takes threat to child as an order. Cuts off child's earsPlowing above the tree. Told to plow above a certain tree (on the hillside), numskulls haul oxen and plow into tree and destroy them"Plowing out potatoes." Fool plows them out of ground

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