Lie: the great bee. Liar says that in a certain place bees are as big as sheep. – And the bee-hives? – The same as ours. – How do the bees get in? (Various answers.) — Mythoi

Motif

Lie: the great bee. Liar says that in a certain place bees are as big as sheep. – And the bee-hives? – The same as ours. – How do the bees get in? (Various answers.)

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies about animals. · Lies about insects. · view the constellation · filed as X1282.1

Cited in the index

general BP II 515
general *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 219.

Within the index

Filed under Lies about bees.

Carried in tale types

The Great Insect · ATU 1960M 2 recorded variants
The Great Bee and Small Beehive · ATU 1920G 1 recorded variant

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