Lie: animals eat one another up — Mythoi

Motif

Lie: animals eat one another up.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies about animals. · Lie: remarkable animals. · view the constellation · filed as X1204

Filed across the traditions

U.S. *Baughman.

Within the index

Filed under Lie: remarkable animals.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Two wolves eat each other up so that only tails are left Lie: two birds swallow each other

Filed beside it

Lie: the great animal Lie: animals inherit acquired characteristics or conditions Lie: animal's food affects him in unusual way. (E.g. Pine tops: milk good for cough syrup.) 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 (Thompson’s cf.)

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

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