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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

Filed across the traditions
  • 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

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