μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Only love to offer. Bride asks suitors what they have to offer her. Poor youth who has nothing but love to offer gets her.

Reversal of fortune. · Triumph of the weak. · Triumph of the weak – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as L393

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys.
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Filed under Triumph of the weak – miscellaneous.

Filed beside it
Needle kills an elk. Slips into his stomach Mouse stronger than wall, wind, mountain Slow flying swan lasts longer than speedy crow in flying Frog, tortoise, fish each tell of how long they expect to live. Frog alone does not expect to live to a hundred and ten years and alone escapes fisherman's net

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