Prayer that overbearing knight's illness be increased. A little sickness has made him kind; more may make him kinder — Mythoi

Motif

Prayer that overbearing knight's illness be increased. A little sickness has made him kind; more may make him kinder.

Traits of character. · Unfavorable traits of character. · Unfavorable traits of character – social. · view the constellation · filed as W185.2

Cited in the index

general Crane Vitry 48 No. 103
general Mensa Philosophica No. 143.

Within the index

Filed under Violence of temper.

Filed beside it

Man demonstrates his violence of temper. He overhears a man tell of his temper. In anger he enters and demands to know when he has ever lost his temper Temper lost from reading history. Man so angered that he refuses to pay his workmen Monk loses temper at cup and breaks it. [Inadvertant duplication of H1553.5.] Violence of judge's temper leads him to have men given death sentence unjustly Insult worse than wound. The lion to the man: "The wound has healed, but the pain of harsh words still remains."

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