μῦθοι Mythoi
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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 Type 951B.
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Filed under Accidental discovery of crime.

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Criminal accidentally detected: "that is the first."Numskull talks to himself and frightens robbers awayNumskull bribed to keep silent in elephant sale when he manifests interest, though utterly ignorantCane as evidence of robbery. A man believing that he has killed a robber forgets his cane. Later finds it in robber's houseImpostor accidentally gives king talking bed which reveals his identityOfficer comes accidentally to the same building where the fugitive sleeps

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