Lies about bees — Mythoi

Motif

Lies about bees.

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

Cited in the index

general Ireland, U.S.: *Baughman.

Within the index

Filed under Lies about insects.

1 finer motif beneath it

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.)

Filed beside it

Lies about crossbreeding of insects Lies about ferocious insects 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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