Lie: large boar has bristles as long as pitchfork tines

Motif

Lie: large boar has bristles as long as pitchfork tines.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies about animals. · Lies about mammals. · view the constellation · filed as X1233.1.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

LithuanianBalys Index No. 1879*.
general England, Scotland: *Baughman

Within the index

Filed under Lie: large hog.

Filed beside it

The great wild-boar. Tusks go through tree and come out on other side

Carried in tale types

The Great Ox · ATU 1960A1 recorded variant

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