King so old that he only can take food from a horn — Mythoi

Motif

King so old that he only can take food from a horn.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Remarkable persons. · Other extraordinary human beings. · view the constellation · filed as F571.5

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 12, Section IX
Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 19
Literary Crystallization Masnavi i Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets (abridged) , Book 1, Story 9
North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 85 LXXXV. THE MAGIC APPLES 2%

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic Flateyjarbók I 26, Boberg.

Within the index

Filed under Extremely old person.

Filed beside it

Old man with hanging eyelids. So old that the eyelids hang down to his chin and must be lifted up 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 cannot get on horseback without help Person hundreds of years old Man lives for nine generations

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