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 *Chauvin II 102 No. 64
  • general Bødker Exempler 303 No. 74.
Within the index

Filed under Trouble-makers.

Filed beside it
Trickster makes two friends each suspicious of the other's intentionsFalse message of love carried to hero and maiden by troublemakerServant lays skin of dead dog in the bed of his mistress and master. Makes trouble between themThe 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 breathOfficers praised in reverse from their real merit: trouble for them and their masterThe 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 himTrouble-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 sonTwo persons separately informed about each other's death

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