μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Man trades an egg for a needle, demands treat of a gill of rum, the traditional reward for traders. The storekeeper gives him the rum; he asks for an egg in it. The storekeeper breaks an egg (the one he has just traded the needle for) into the rum. It has two yolks; the trader asks for two needles.

Traits of character. · Unfavorable traits of character. · Unfavorable traits of character – social. · view the constellation · filed as W154.26.1

Filed across the traditions
  • U.S. Baughman.
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Filed under Man demands ever larger gifts.

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