μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Royalty unable to endure coarse entertainment.

The nature of life. · The nature of life – miscellaneous motifs. · One man's food is another man's poison. · view the constellation · filed as U146

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

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Coarse food, etc., sends adulterous king back to his wife
Filed beside 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 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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