μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general *Type 1950
  • general *BP III 207
  • general Wesselski Märchen 213 No. 21
  • general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 261
  • general Oesterley No. 91
  • general Fb "doven" IV 102b. Spanish Exempla: Keller
Within the index

Filed under Laziness.

6 finer motifs beneath it
Man lets legs burn in fire rather than move themMan will not lift knife to cut rope about to hang himMan will not move in bed when water drops in his eyesMan so lazy that he will not wipe his running nose. This causes him to lose prospective brideMan floating in river too lazy to drink. His voice is damagedMan too lazy to pick up berries (dates)
Filed beside it
The lazy servantThe lazy wifeLazy husbandOther lazy persons
Carried in tale types

wander