μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

The house is burned down. – That is too bad. – That is not bad at all, my wife burned it down. – That is good. – That is not good, etc.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Cumulative tales. · Cumulative tales – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as Z51.1

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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.

  • general Type 2014
  • general *Taylor JAFL XLVI 81 No. 2014
  • general Nouvelles Récréations No. 75.
Within the index

Filed under Chains involving contradictions or extremes.

Carried in tale types

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