μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 10references

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.

  • IndonesiaDeVries's list No. 139
  • Africa (Ekoi)Talbot 393.
  • general *Prato Archivio per lo studio delle tradizioni popolari IV (1885) 25ff.
  • general Penzer V 135 n.
  • general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 399
  • general Wienert FFC LVI *43 (ET 6), 92 (ST 59)
  • general Halm Aesop No. 197
  • general Jacobs Aesop 206 No. 29
  • general *Crane Vitry 167 No. 73
  • general *H. Gombel Die Fabel vom Magen und den Gliedern (Beihefte zur Zs. f. romanische Philologie LXXX [Halle, 1934]). Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas III 71, *301f., *Neuman
Within the index

Filed under Senseless debate of the mutually useful.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Tail and head of serpent quarrel as to usefulnessFortune, Intellect, Knowledge, and Health dispute as to which is the greatestDebate of tongue and other bodily members
Filed beside it
Common wives of man debate as to which has helped him most. Help of each was indispensableTobacco, pipe, and match debate usefulness to smokerDeer, opossum, and snake each render indispensable aid to man. Foolishly debate their usefulnessRice, wheat, and dal dispute as to which is the bestDispute of hammer and anvilWealth and wisdom dispute as to who is greaterElephant and ape debate about superiority. Owl gives them task neither can perform and ends futile debate
Carried in tale types

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