Longing for accustomed food and living — Mythoi

Motif

Longing for accustomed food and living.

The nature of life. · The nature of life – miscellaneous motifs. · The power of habit. · view the constellation · filed as U135

Within the index

Filed under The power of habit.

3 finer motifs beneath it

At feast cat chooses rat meat; other animals cannot eat it Shepherd in king's palace sickens for country air Former slave sickens for accustomed food

Filed beside it

Newly rich cannot resist call for distribution of food to beggars Familiarity takes away fear Man soon learns to stand the smells of the tannery Knight doesn't want to go to heaven if there are no hunting dogs there Fisher and hunter exchange catches for variety: soon return to original food Mill horse when taken to war keeps going in a circle, as he has learned in the mill Habit of dishonesty (thievery) cannot be broken Power of habit – miscellaneous

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