The wonderful hunt — Mythoi

Motif

The wonderful hunt.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lie: Great hunters and fishermen. · The wonderful hunt. · view the constellation · filed as X1110

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 16
Irish Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland , Ch. 58 CHAPTER XII. THE RED WOMAN
North American Indigenous Navaho Legends , Legend 2
North American Indigenous Zuni Folk Tales , Tale 7
Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 17

Filed across the traditions

Indonesia DeVries's list No. 312.
general *Types 1890–1909
general Wesselski Märchen 226f.

Within the index

7 finer motifs beneath it

The unlucky hunt Hunter shoots ram-rod full of ducks Hunter catches fish in boots while wading Man lays bag by fencehole and all the hares run into it Large bag of frozen raccoons taken by hunter. (Cf. X1130.3.) The breathing tree. Hunter cuts down tree packed full of animals. The tree is so full of animals that a crack in tree opens as animals inhale, closes when they exhale Miscellaneous stories of plentiful game

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