Sending to the older. Old person refers inquirer to his father, who refers to his father, and so on for several generations

Motif

Sending to the older. Old person refers inquirer to his father, who refers to his father, and so on for several generations.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Remarkable persons. · Other extraordinary human beings. · view the constellation · filed as F571.2

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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.

Irish myth*Cross, O'Suilleabhain 74, Beal XXI 326.
general *Type 726
general *Baum JAFL XXX 379 n. 2
general *Wesselski Archiv Orientální IV 1ff.

Within the index

Filed under Extremely old person.

1 finer motif beneath it

Sending to the older uncle

Filed beside it

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

Carried in tale types

The Three Old Men (previously The Oldest on the Farm) · ATU 7261 recorded variant

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