μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
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Filed under Adventures of kings.

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Disguised king punished by peasant. Beaten because he does not get up early enough. (King Alfred and the cakes.)King demands subject's wife for himselfKing loses his kingdom to impostor. (Cf. K1934.1.)King is cursed by disguised dwarf-smiths whose work he criticisedKing frees man sent by rival king to kill him. He sees bravery in the would-be assassinKing descends to bottom of sea in glass barrel to study ways of fishesKing himself works at brick building so that subjects cannot complain of enforced labor

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