Lie: the big frog

Motif

Lie: the big frog.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies about animals. · Lie: extraordinary amphibia and other animals. · view the constellation · filed as X1342.1

Filed across the traditions

U.S. *Baughman.

Within the index

Filed under Lies about frogs.

1 finer motif beneath it

The great frog. Eaten by one larger and this in turn by crow

Filed beside it

Ferocious frog Lie: frog eats plowshare. (Cf. J1531.2.)

Carried in tale types

The Great Ox · ATU 1960A 1 recorded variant

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