Lies about insects — Mythoi

Motif

Lies about insects.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies about animals. · Lies about insects. · view the constellation · filed as X1280

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Greco-Roman Pausanias's Description of Greece , Book 10

Within the index

11 finer motifs beneath it

Lies about crossbreeding of insects Lies about ferocious insects Lies about bees Lies about fleas Remarkable mosquitoes Lie: extraordinary fireflies Lies about grasshoppers Lies about bedbugs Lies about flies Lies about gnats Lies about lice

Carried in tale types

The Great Insect · ATU 1960M 2 recorded variants

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