μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

  • Italian NovellaRotunda.
  • general *Crane Vitry 214 No. 200
  • general Herbert III 16
  • general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 10
  • general Scala Celi 87b No. 512
Within the index

Filed under Greed.

Filed beside it
Cauldron of greedVisiting friends take everything from house of dying manWolves devour an ox without leaving a share for the rightful ownerSnake and weasel stop fighting in order to catch mouseFather-in-law sued for breach of contract because he does not die in two years as he has predictedHog with broken leg refuses to tell another where peas are to be found. "I intend to go there myself as soon as I get well again."Eats up the money. Old man before dying eats his money. In church, son wants to cut corpse open and get the money. The devil: "Don't spoil the skin." Shakes money out of the corpse's throat and takes the skinThieves quarrel over booty: owner comes. (Cf. J2136.5.2.)Greedy person (animal) gets hand (head) stuck in food jarGreedy man tries to stuff food into his nostrils as well as into his mouth

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