μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Egg as reward of appropriate saying. First brother (knocking egg against wall): "Casca cascorum." Second (breaking shell and sprinkling dirt over it): "Sar, sale, sapiensa". Third (eating egg): "Consumatus es."

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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.

  • SpanishBoggs FFC XC 153 No. 1942
  • JapaneseIkeda.
Within the index

Filed under Dream bread: the most wonderful dream. Three pilgrims agree that the one who has the most wonderful dream shall eat the last loaf. One eats it and declares that he dreamed that the others were dead and would not need it.

Filed beside it
Bag of cakes said to be full of cobras. Boy eats cakesThe bag with the rice for the road. Boy eats rice and throws empty bag on the road

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