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
Filed across the traditions
- U.S. *Baughman.
Within the index
Filed under Lies about ferocious insects.
Carried in tale types
- The Great Insect · ATU 1960M 2 recorded variants
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