The constellation
X1790 Other logical absurdities
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- Lie: the realistic painting. (Cf. H504.1.) · X1788 entry
- Man cures rheumatism: puts mosquito milk in a cat's horn, stirs it with duck's crotch · X1787 entry
- Lie: the stretching and shrinking harness. Man driving team with wagon uphill in rain finds on arrival at the top of the hill that the tugs of rawhide or buckskin have stretched and that the loaded wagon is still at the bottom of the hill. He unhitches the horses and throws the harness across a stump. Sometime later, or the next morning, the sun comes out and shrinks the tugs, drawing the load to the top of the hill · X1785.1 entry
- Lies about stretching or shrinking · X1785 entry
- Lie: deaf, dumb, blind, and lame men catch hare · X1791 entry
- Lies concerning speed · X1796 entry
- Lie: footless man outruns swift horse · X1796.1 entry
- Miscellaneous lies and exaggerations · X1800 entry