μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • Irish myth*Cross
  • Jewish*Neuman.
Within the index

Filed under Choice between useful and ornamental.

1 finer motif beneath it
Man advised to choose good poor man for his daughter's husband rather than rich man
Filed beside it
Fruitful tree chosenUseful wins contest over beautifulUsefulness better than speedGoodness preferred to beautyUseful and ugly preferred to expensive and beautifulStrength preferred to clevernessPractical knowledge more vital than theoreticalLearned person worth two unlearned. Latter wastes time, former not

wander