One man's food is another man's poison — Mythoi

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One man's food is another man's poison.

The nature of life. · The nature of life – miscellaneous motifs. · One man's food is another man's poison. · view the constellation · filed as U140

Cited in the index

general Wienert FFC LVI 121.

Within the index

8 finer motifs beneath it

Enmity between fisherman and dweller on the river. Fishing stirs up the water and makes it unfit for drinking. (Cf. U31.) Ox likes loving strokes of man; flea fears them Collier and fuller cannot live together: one makes things clean, the other soils them Nightingale cannot lodge with birds whose nest is made of manure Royalty unable to endure coarse entertainment Animals try unsuccessfully to exchange food Good weather for one is foul for another What is one man's food is another man's poison – miscellaneous

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