μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Officers praised in reverse from their real merit: trouble for them and their master.

Deceptions. · False accusations. · Trouble-makers. · view the constellation · filed as K2136

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  • general Type 1579*.
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Filed under Trouble-makers.

Filed beside it
Trickster makes two friends each suspicious of the other's intentions False message of love carried to hero and maiden by troublemaker Servant lays skin of dead dog in the bed of his mistress and master. Makes trouble between them The complaint about bad breath: trouble for the king's favorite. A steward advises the courtier to hold his head away when serving the king, since the king objects to his bad breath. He then tells the king that the courtier holds his head back to avoid the king's bad breath The priest's guest and the eaten chickens. The servant who has eaten the chickens tells the guest to flee because the priest is going to cut off his ears, and he tells the priest that the guest has stolen two chickens The priest runs after him Trouble-maker in night-lodging. Comes riding a wolf and asks for hospitality. Wolf kills sheep. Beehive in bed. Bees sting family and cause father to kill son Jealous courtiers shake king lion's confidence in his councillor, the virtuous jackal, by accusing the jackal of stealing the lion's food Two persons separately informed about each other's death

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