μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • West IndiesFlowers 583.
  • general England, U.S.: Baughman
Within the index

Filed under Unfavorable traits of character – social.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Hardhearted horse allows ass to be overburdened until it is crushed. Horse must then assume the loadMan helping another across stream drops him when he learns that he has lost his high positionMan unable to weep for hardness of heartHardhearted person refuses reprieve for father's murderersPermission refused to drink from water tank
Filed beside it
GreedStinginessMiserlinessIngratitudeThe dog in the manger. Has no use for the manger but refuses to give it up to the horseDishonestyInhospitality. (Cf. Q292.)Love of publicityFalse pride. Son ashamed of his peasant father who brings him money. Father disinherits him. (Cf. Q331.)StubbornnessTwo-facednessChangeablenessJealousyThe crying child. He stops crying so that after a rest he can cry louder than everViolence of temperInsolence

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