Lie: remarkable ox or steer

Motif

Lie: remarkable ox or steer.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies about animals. · Lies about mammals. · view the constellation · filed as X1237

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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.

U.S.*Baughman, *Folk-Say I 62 (bibliography of "Paul Bunyan" stories).

Within the index

Filed under Lies about mammals.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Lies about strong oxen Lie: the remarkable blue ox

Filed beside it

Lies about cats Lies about wildcats Lies about panthers Lies about dogs Lies about wolves Lies about bears Lies about chipmunks Lies about mice Lies about rats Lie: extraordinary hog Lie: remarkable cow Lies about horses Lies about mules Lies about sheep Lies about goats

Carried in tale types

Lying Contest (previously The Hero Forces the Princess to Say, 'That is a Lie') · ATU 8522 recorded variants

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