Lie: horses knead dough

Motif

Lie: horses knead dough.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies about animals. · Lies about mammals. · view the constellation · filed as X1241.2.3

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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.

general Type 1930
general BP III 244ff.

Within the index

Filed under Well-trained horse.

Filed beside it

Horse takes cattle out to pasture; brings them in by himself Trained horse as harvester and hunter. He rolls in the field. Oats in his flanks; club in his tail kills birds. (Cf. X1252.1.)

Carried in tale types

Schlaraffenland · ATU 19302 recorded variants

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