μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Man inattentive to the danger of drowning enters water to save treasure and is drowned.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Forethought. · Forethought in conflicts with others. · Avoidance of others' power. · view the constellation · filed as J651.2

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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.

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Filed under Inattention to danger.

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Throstle giving all attention to sweet fruits is caught by bird catcher

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