μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Man rejects bride because she seems immature. Her father reassures him that she has had several children already.

The nature of life. · The nature of life – miscellaneous motifs. · Appearances deceive. · view the constellation · filed as U117

Filed across the traditions
  • Italian Novella Rotunda.
Within the index

Filed under Appearances deceive.

Filed beside it
Many books do not make a scholar Beard on she-goats do not make a male Big voice: little creature. (Frogs, crickets.) Mountain in labor brings forth a mouse The skeleton in the closet. An apparently happy man lets another see the actual misery of his existence Hypocrite is acclaimed as saint after his death Other ways in which appearances deceive

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “reassures” · wander