Man escapes from bee's nest on bear's tail

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Man escapes from bee's nest on bear's tail.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lie: Great hunters and fishermen. · Lie: hunter's unusual experiences. · view the constellation · filed as X1133.4

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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.

general Type 1900.

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Filed under Lie: the hunter in danger.

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Lie: man uses remarkable means of getting out of tree stump Man escapes from bear by running for a long time, from summer to winter. Bear chases man in July; he finally crosses a river on the ice. The bear falls in or stops following (in December)Man in barrel grabs wolf by the tail and is drawn out of danger Tigers stand on each other's heads trying to reach man in tree. His tears form a stream

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