Lie: animals inherit acquired characteristics or conditions

Motif

Lie: animals inherit acquired characteristics or conditions.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies about animals. · Lie: remarkable animals. · view the constellation · filed as X1202

Scholars’ trail — 1 reference (open)

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 Canada, U.S.: *Baughman.

Within the index

Filed under Lie: remarkable animals.

1 finer motif beneath it

Small cart serves as back legs for crippled sow. Pigs also have these carts

Filed beside it

Lie: the great animal Lie: animal's food affects him in unusual way. (E.g. Pine tops: milk good for cough syrup.) Lie: animals eat one another up Lie: venom of animal (snake, hornet, bee) causes object to swell Lies: animals trained to respond to certain sounds: absurd result Animals already cooked for eating

Travels with

Absurd disregard of anatomy. (Cf. X1202, X1203, X1204.)

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