Lie: man carried through air by geese

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Lie: man carried through air by geese.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies about animals. · Lies about birds. · view the constellation · filed as X1258.1

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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.

JapaneseIkeda.
general Type 1881

Within the index

Filed under Lies about geese.

Filed beside it

Lie: the tough goose

Carried in tale types

The Man Carried through the Air by Geese · ATU 18811 recorded variant
The Man who Fell Out of a Balloon · ATU 18821 recorded variant

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