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

Motif

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

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies about animals. · Lie: extraordinary amphibia and other animals. · view the constellation · filed as X1342.3

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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 1930
general BP III 258.

Within the index

Filed under Lies about frogs.

Filed beside it

Lie: the big frog Ferocious frog

Travels with

The iron-eating mice. Trustee claims that mice have eaten the iron scales confided to him. The host abducts the trustee's son and says that a falcon has carried him off

Carried in tale types

Schlaraffenland · ATU 19302 recorded variants

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