Kind foster-parents chosen rather than cruel parents. (Cf. J325.) — Mythoi

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Kind foster-parents chosen rather than cruel parents. (Cf. J325.)

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Choices. · Choices: kind strangers, unkind relatives. · view the constellation · filed as J391

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Filed under Choices: kind strangers, unkind relatives.

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Lamb chooses her foster-mother, the she-goat. Owes more to her than to her own mother, who has deserted her

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Children choose father they know rather than real father they do not yet know. Woman confesses that child is not by her husband. Child, however, chooses to keep the father he knows. (Cf. J391, J1279.1.)

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