Person who never laughs — Mythoi

Motif

Person who never laughs.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Remarkable persons. · Other extraordinary human beings. · view the constellation · filed as F591

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Hermetic / Alchemical The Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged , Tract 10: The Book of Lambspring
Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 3, Section CCXXXI
Literary Crystallization Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None , Chapter 36 XXXVI. THE LAND OF CULTURE.
Literary Crystallization Ulysses , 14 Oxen of the Sun
Māori Polynesian Mythology, and Ancient Traditional History of the New Zealand Race , Chapter 13

Filed across the traditions

Jewish Neuman
Buddhist myth Malalasekera II 347, 1288.

Within the index

Filed under Other extraordinary human beings.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Prince who never laughs Sad-faced princess cannot laugh

Filed beside it

Extremely old person Dancers upon whom icicles hang Negro so black that he makes whole garden somber Luminous person Remarkable beauty. (Cf. F574.1.) Extraordinary ugliness. (Cf. A2402.) Persons identical in appearance. (Cf. F1072.) [First Edition: F581. Woman who drives those who see her mad. (Inadvertant duplication of F1041.8.1.)] Poison damsel. Woman nourished on poison is fatal to her husbands. Sometimes the poisoning is from fatal look or breath, sometimes from intercourse Hero has lain motionless since birth Person remarkably light in weight Phantoms Man's ferocious glance kills (causes swooning) Person's extraordinary body temperature. (Cf. F546.5) Man whose entrails are visible when he laughs Man's body exudes sweet scent

Carried in tale types

Dungbeetle · ATU 559 3 recorded variants
'All Stick Together' · ATU 571 3 recorded variants

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