μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Sale of worthless animals.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Two jars full of live black wasps sold as interpreters of foreign languageParrot knowing only two words sold as speaking foreign language
Filed beside it
Animal sold as messengerWolf sold as a goat (sheep)Wild animal sold as watch-dogDeceptive horse-salePseudo-magic animals soldSale of dead buffalo by making him seem aliveOther worthless animals sold

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