Man can hear one sleeping by putting ear to ground

Motif

Man can hear one sleeping by putting ear to ground.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Persons with extraordinary powers. · Extraordinary powers of perception. · view the constellation · filed as F641.3

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

Italian NovellaRotunda.

Within the index

Filed under Person of remarkable hearing. (Cf. X936.)

Filed beside it

Man can hear grass (wool) grow Man can hear ant leave nest fifty miles away

Carried in tale types

Six Go through the Whole World · ATU 513A4 recorded variants

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