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.

  • Spanish ExemplaKeller.
  • general Bødker Exempler 281 No. 25
Within the index

Filed under Miscellaneous deceptions.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Bird plucks another bird's feathers outDwarf-deer pastes other animal's eyes shut and pretends that hunters are coming
Filed beside it
Deceiving the higher powers (God, the saints, the gods, fate)Enemies reconciled by gifts which the one's son tells are sent from the otherThe returned box on the ears. At table each gives his neighbor a box on the ears. The soldier is to give it to the king, but he returns it to the courtier from whom he has received itEntering a garden by swimming down a stream that flows into itTemporary advantage gained by pretending to yield in a combatRuler diverts attention from misgovernment by beginning a warTying cat to balky horse's tail to make him moveMan tricked to be one's sworn brother in order to secure his help against his motherDemon enters person and refuses to leave until wishes have been fulfilledAttempt to kill by throwing knife

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