μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • IrishBeal XXI 327, O'Suilleabhain 75
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Unfavorable traits of character – social.

1 finer motif beneath it
Priest uses fortune dishonestly made to erect monuments to himself
Filed beside it
GreedStinginessMiserlinessIngratitudeHardness of heartThe dog in the manger. Has no use for the manger but refuses to give it up to the horseInhospitality. (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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