Test: guessing nature of certain skin – louse-skin. Louse (flea) is fattened and its skin made into coat (drum, etc.) — Mythoi

Motif

Test: guessing nature of certain skin – louse-skin. Louse (flea) is fattened and its skin made into coat (drum, etc.)

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Tests in guessing. · view the constellation · filed as H522.1.1

Filed across the traditions

Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "bète"
Italian Basile Pentamerone I No. 5
India *Thompson-Balys
Filipino Fansler MAFLS XII 114.
general *Type 621
general BP III 484
general *Taylor MPh XV 224 n. 2

Within the index

Filed under Test: guessing origin of certain skin.

Filed beside it

Test: guessing nature of certain skin – wolf-skin Test: guessing origin of animal lungs. Lungs of fattened lizard are further inflated

Carried in tale types

The Louse-Skin · ATU 857 2 recorded variants

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