μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Enmity between fisherman and dweller on the river. Fishing stirs up the water and makes it unfit for drinking. (Cf. U31.)

The nature of life. · The nature of life – miscellaneous motifs. · One man's food is another man's poison. · view the constellation · filed as U141

Cited in the index
  • general Wienert FFC LVI 84 (ET 512), 121 (ST 303)
  • general Halm Aesop No. 25.
Within the index

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

Filed beside it
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
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Wolf unjustly accuses lamb and eats him. When all the lamb's defenses are good the wolf asserts the right of the strong over the weak. (Usually accused of stirring up water from lower in stream.) (Cf. U141.)

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