μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

  • general Crane Vitry 149f. No. 39
  • general Scala Celi 7b No. 48
  • general Herbert III 77 No. 200, 462 No. 94, 497 No. 238, 499 No. 262
  • general Alphabet No. 41
  • general Mensa Philosophica No. 147.
Within the index

Filed under Jokes on lawyers. (Cf. P422.)

1 finer motif beneath it
Dying lawyer asks delay
Filed beside it
What will happen when there are so many lawyers. Woman sees the crowds of students in the law school. She knows that the one lawyer in her village has ruined nearly everyoneBeggar frightens lawyer into giving by telling him of all the lawyers in hellDying like Christ – between two thieves. The dying man has the lawyer and the notary stand on either side of himLawyer who tries to practice without lying fails. He enters religious order and tries to conduct the legal business without lyingNero has reserved place in hell for lawyersLawyer thrown back into mud when rescuers learn that he is a lawyerLawyer loses tongue in death because he sold it in lifeMiscellaneous jokes about lawyers

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