Gunshot splits limb and catches feet of birds — Mythoi

Motif

Gunshot splits limb and catches feet of birds.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lie: Great hunters and fishermen. · Lie: the great marksman. · view the constellation · filed as X1124.3.1

Cited in the index

general Type 1890.

Within the index

Filed under Accidental discharge of gun kills much game. Gun kills a bird which falls on loose limb of tree, which falls on bear, etc., etc.

Carried in tale types

Shot causes a Series of Lucky or Unlucky Accidents (previously Lucky Shot: Miscellaneous Forms) · ATU 1890F 1 recorded variant

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