Ears stopped with wax to avoid enchanting song. Odysseus and the Sirens

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Ears stopped with wax to avoid enchanting song. Odysseus and the Sirens.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Forethought. · Forethought in conflicts with others. · Forethought in defences against others. · view the constellation · filed as J672.1

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Scholars’ trail — 6references

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Irish myth*Cross
Italian NovellaRotunda
GreekFox 137, 263
India*Thompson-Balys.
general Chauvin VII 98 No. 375 n. 4
general Köhler-Bolte I 125

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Filed under Defences by strengthening one's own weakest spots.

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Cotton put in ears so as not to hear abusive words

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