Old man with hanging eyelids. So old that the eyelids hang down to his chin and must be lifted up

Motif

Old man with hanging eyelids. So old that the eyelids hang down to his chin and must be lifted up.

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

N. Am. Indian (Seneca)Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 213 No. 41.
general *Fb "öje" III 1167a
general *BP II 398 n. 2, IV 148
general Welsh, Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 187

Within the index

Filed under Extremely old person.

Filed beside it

Sending to the older. Old person refers inquirer to his father, who refers to his father, and so on for several generations Very old woman Man so old he sleeps in cradle King so old that he only can take food from a horn King so old that he cannot get on horseback without help Person hundreds of years old Man lives for nine generations

Travels with

Wood-spirits with such heavy eyebrows they must lie on backs to see upwards. (Cf. F571.1.)

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