Large bag of frozen raccoons taken by hunter. (Cf. X1130.3.)

Motif

Large bag of frozen raccoons taken by hunter. (Cf. X1130.3.)

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lie: Great hunters and fishermen. · The wonderful hunt. · view the constellation · filed as X1115

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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.

U.S.Baughman.

Within the index

Filed under The wonderful hunt.

1 finer motif beneath it

The rabbit-catch: rabbits freeze feet fast to ice at night

Filed beside 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 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

Travels with

Water of stream or lake freezes just as frogs jump into lake. The frogs are caught in the ice

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