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.

  • Irish mythCross.
Within the index

Filed under Undutiful children.

Filed beside it
Folly of father's giving all property to children before his death. They abandon himSupposed chest of gold induces children to care for aged father. They think that the chest of stones contains the inheritanceNot daring to curse father directly, son does so indirectlyUndutiful children ridicule father while he is drunk and nakedUndutiful son overawes his father by threatsUndutiful son taught lesson showing his mother has suffered from him

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