μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

The honest miller. Baker cannot understand how a man who has been a miller can be a beggar. It is a wonder that the farmers are not beggars instead.

Humor. · Humor of social classes. · Humor dealing with tradesmen. · Jokes about millers. · view the constellation · filed as X212

Cited in the index
  • general Wesselski Bebel I 118 No. 3.
Within the index

Filed under Jokes about millers. (Cf. P443.)

1 finer motif beneath it
Priest commends the poor miller. If he had been like the rest of the congregation he would have become rich
Filed beside it
Millers as thieves Why no millers in hell. A mad dog in place of a miller in a sack Monks get revenge on millers. Drunken millers force monks to dance. Millers are enticed to monastery and beaten

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “understand” · wander