μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Sultan tries to prove to Adversity he cannot be seized at specified time and hides in a sewer. He thus experiences adversity in his very effort to avoid it.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Literal fools. · Metaphors literally interpreted. · view the constellation · filed as J2488.2

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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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
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Filed under Numskull wants to see an abstract quality.

Filed beside it
Numskull dragon wants to see courage

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