μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • general *Crane Vitry 264 No. 297
  • general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 29.
Within the index

Filed under Pretended virtue.

1 finer motif beneath it
The wolf in the company of saints. Promises to give up slaying animals. After wringing the gander's neck, excuses self saying: "He should not have hissed at the saint."
Filed beside it
Adulteress feigns unusual sensitivenessThe oversensitive bridePretended honesty to mulct victim. Trickster claims to have found a bag of gold. Confederate claims and receives it upon correct identification. Spectator is thus deceived into trusting the trickster with a large sum of moneyHypocritical stepmother weeps as she tells departing husband she will take good care of stepchildren though they beat her (she beats them instead)Hypocrite refuses gifts orally but stretches out his handsPretended piety
Carried in tale types

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