μῦθοι Mythoi
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The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • general Cf. Heywood's Play of the Weather.
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Filed under One man's food is another man's poison.

1 finer motif beneath it
Bird wants sunshine, worm clouds
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 themCollier and fuller cannot live together: one makes things clean, the other soils themNightingale cannot lodge with birds whose nest is made of manureRoyalty unable to endure coarse entertainmentAnimals try unsuccessfully to exchange foodWhat is one man's food is another man's poison – miscellaneous

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