μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Ignorant steward straightens his master's accounts. The educated stewards have always cheated. The ignorant puts his belongings in one box, his master's in another. Both master and steward gain.

Reversal of fortune. · Unpromising hero (heroine). · The unpromising surpasses the promising. · view the constellation · filed as L144.1

Cited in the index
  • general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 355.
Within the index

Filed under Ignorant surpasses learned man.

Filed beside it
Farmer surpasses astronomer and doctor in predicting weather and choosing food

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