μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • JapaneseIkeda.
  • general Type 1008
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Filed under Dupe's goods destroyed.

Filed beside it
Plowing the field: horse and harness destroyed. The youth is told to come home from plowing when the dog does. He beats the dog so that it runs home; then he destroys the horse and harness and goes homeGuarding the door. It is lifted off and carried awayTake care of the stopper! The son puts the stopper into his pocket, and all the tar (beer) runs outRepairing the house. House or furniture destroyedTearing up the orchard (vineyard). Rascal has been told to cut woodClosing the door tight: with iron nailsWhetting the knife: the whole blade whetted awayClearing land: axe brokenThreshing grain: granary roof used as threshing flailMowing grass: the meadow torn upClearing out manure: digs holeCovering the whole wagon with tarFilling the pen. Told to fill locked pen trickster chops up wagon and mules and throws them inSowing grain: does so in unplowed fieldTrickster saws legs of table so that it collapsesFixing fences: trickster cuts fence down
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