Large mosquitoes carry off prey

Motif

Large mosquitoes carry off prey.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies about animals. · Lies about insects. · view the constellation · filed as X1286.1.5

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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 Lie: the large mosquito.

Filed beside it

Lie: wingspread of large mosquito Lie: weight of large mosquito Lie: mosquito's long bill Large mosquitoes fly off with kettle. They have drilled through kettle. Their bills are clinched inside like nails Big mosquito with golden palace in his mouth Large mosquitoes – miscellaneous

Carried in tale types

The Great Insect · ATU 1960M28 recorded variants

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