μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Supposed chest of gold induces children to care for aged father. They think that the chest of stones contains the inheritance.

Society. · The family. · Parents and children. · view the constellation · filed as P236.2

Filed across the traditions
  • Spanish Boggs FFC XC 116 No. 980A
  • Italian Novella *Rotunda
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Indonesia Jeynball Catalogus Maleische en Sundaneesche Hss. 173, ibid. Supplement Catalogus Javaansche en Madoereesche Hss. 22.
  • general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 435
  • general Scala Celi 98b No. 528
  • general Dunlop-Wilson II 185f.
  • general von der Hagen II lviii No. 49
  • general Hdwb. d. Abergl. IV 1290. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 2452*
  • general Palestine: Schmidt-Kahle Volkserzählungen aus Palästina II No. 123
Within the index

Filed under Undutiful children.

Filed beside it
Folly of father's giving all property to children before his death. They abandon him Not daring to curse father directly, son does so indirectly Son deposes father and usurps throne Undutiful children ridicule father while he is drunk and naked Undutiful son overawes his father by threats Undutiful son taught lesson showing his mother has suffered from him
Carried in tale types

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