Insects eat team of horses or mules, pitch horseshoes to see who gets what is left.
Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies about animals. · Lies about insects. · view the constellation · filed as X1280.2.1
Motif
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.
Within the index
Filed under Lies about ferocious insects.
Carried in tale types
- The Great Insect · ATU 1960M2 recorded variants