Lie: the great fish.
Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies about animals. · Lies about fish. · view the constellation · filed as X1301
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter LXVILXVI. The External Soul in Folk-Tales
- Australian AboriginalAustralian Legendary Tales and More Australian Legendary Tales, 7Bootoolgah the Crane and Goonur
- GermanicGrimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 125125.— THE DEVIL AND HIS GRANDMOTHER.
- FinnishThe Kalevala, Rune XLVII
Scholars’ trail — 2references
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.
- general Type 1960B
- general England, U.S.: *Baughman.
Carried in tale types
- The Great Fish · ATU 1960B1 recorded variant