μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

A lentil in the soup. You said you wished a lentil soup; so I put one in. If you had wished more lentils you should have said so.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Literal fools. · Literal obedience. · view the constellation · filed as J2469.1

Cited in the index
  • general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 605.
Within the index

Filed under Instructions followed literally – miscellaneous.

Filed beside it
Taking the prescription. The fool eats the paper with the prescription on it Dividing all they have. So advised, they cut their beds, houses, etc. in two. (Cf. M241.) Boy asked to do something to cool women's ears breaks vessels they carry so milk in them can cool their ears off Literal fool – something you have never experienced

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “lentils” · wander