μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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 Wienert FFC LVI *49, 55 (ET 86, 152), 116, 136 (ST 261, 417)
  • general Halm Aesop No. 129, 252.
Within the index

Filed under Escape from one misfortune into worse.

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Ass gets progressively worse masters. Finally the farmer beats him living and will not spare his hide when he is deadHalcyon builds nest on sea-cliff to escape land hazards. Tempest blows nest awayFugitive slave takes refuge in mill house, where he must work harder than everDaw fleeing from captivity caught in trees by thread around foot. StarvesOld man burns self with gunpowder, and then burns himself worse when he pours hot water over his body

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