μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Which is more powerful, wealth or wisdom?

Chance and fate. · The ways of luck and fate. · Nature of luck and fate. · Nature of luck and fate – miscellaneous motifs. · view the constellation · filed as N141.2

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  • India *Thompson-Balys.
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Filed under Luck or intelligence? Dispute as to which is the more powerful. Man with intelligence remains poor (is brought into court). Saved by mere luck.

Filed beside it
Which is more important, learning or wit? Which is more beautiful, nymph of Luck or of Ill-Luck (Luck when coming, Ill-Luck when going) Weaver married by Wealth to a princess to show Wisdom that he is the more powerful

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