μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Swallow advises hen against hatching out serpent's eggs. She is hatching her own destruction.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Forethought. · Forethought in conflicts with others. · Forethought in prevention of others's plans. · view the constellation · filed as J622.1.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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  • general Wienert FFC LVI 63 (ET 255), 147 (ST 516)
  • general Halm Aesop No. 342.
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