μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Reeds bend before wind (flood). Save themselves while oak is uprooted.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Adaptability. · Adaptability to overpowering force. · view the constellation · filed as J832

Filed across the traditions
  • Jewish Neuman.
  • general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 174
  • general Wienert FFC LVI 73 (ET 387), 107 (ST 190, 243)
  • general Halm Aesop No. 179
  • general **E. Grawi Die Fabel vom Baum und dem Schilfrohr in der Weltliteratur (Rostock Diss., 1911). India: Thompson-Balys
Within the index

Filed under Adaptability to overpowering force.

Filed beside it
Mohammed goes to the mountain (tree) when the mountain will not come to him Ass foolish to kick against the pricks Fire burns man who doesn't understand it. Useful when one knows how to use it Wit interprets unfavorable decision of court as doing him great honor
Carried in tale types

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