μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

King Lear judgment. A king flattered by his elder daughters and angered by the seeming indifference, though real love, of the youngest, banishes the youngest and favors the elder daughters.

Ordaining the future. · Judgments and decrees. · Short-sighted judgments. · view the constellation · filed as M21

Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 183 No. 124.
  • general Type 510
  • general BP II 47, III 305
  • general *Cox Nos. 208–226
  • general *Hartland FLJ IV 308
  • general *Oesterley No. 273
  • general Herbert III 201
Within the index

Filed under Short-sighted judgments.

Carried in tale types

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