Modest parting gift best – meat or bones. Bones thrown to pursuing dogs delay them and allow escape; not so with meat

Motif

Modest parting gift best – meat or bones. Bones thrown to pursuing dogs delay them and allow escape; not so with meat.

Reversal of fortune. · Modesty brings reward. · Modest request best. · view the constellation · filed as L222.2

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Modest choice: parting gift. Small gift with blessing preferred to large gift with parent's curse.

Filed beside it

Modest choice for parting gift – money or counsels. Counsels chosen Modest choice for parting gift: when offered money man takes magic stick Modest choice of parting gift: magic iron measure chosen

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