μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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 Africa (Rozwi): Posselt Fables of the Veld (Oxford, 1929) 30ff.
Within the index

Filed under The unpromising surpasses the promising.

Filed beside it
Stupid person surpasses cleverPupil surpasses masterPoor man surpasses richIgnorant surpasses learned manUgly preferred to pretty sisterNeglected surpasses favorite childTardy surpasses punctualSlowness surpasses hastePeasant girl outwits princeScorning stops when it turns out that the scorned has saved the king by fighting alone against fourDisagreeable and disliked child surpasses the likeable oneUnpromising hero kills those who scorn him

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