μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • IcelandicSveinsson FFC LXXXIII No. 852.
  • general *Type 852
  • general *BP II 506
Within the index

Filed under Threat to tell of amorous intrigue used as blackmail.

Filed beside it
The bag of lies: threat to tell of queen's adultery. The boy, who is to tell the bag of lies, is stopped and his wishes grantedEducated chickens tell of woman's adultery. A trickster undertakes to teach a woman's chickens to talk. When he reports that they are saying that she has slept with the priest, she pays him offMan hidden in roof sees girl and lover and falls: they flee and leave him in possession

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