μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Bird advises man to treat his lazy children as she does her young: "In March I make my nest .... in August I have nothing more to do with my young."

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Cumulative tales. · Cumulative tales. · view the constellation · filed as Z24.1.2

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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 *Taylor JAFL XLVI 80 No. 2012C.
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Filed under Widower tells of his courtship, his marriage, and the death of his wife, all in a week.

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Life story in ten hours: "At one I was born .... at ten my child's soul was crowned in heaven.""Solomon Grundy, born on Monday .... buried on Sunday."
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