μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Lie: the side-hill beast. Animal with two short legs on one side for convenience in living on hillsides. It can walk around the hill in only one direction.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies about animals. · Lies about imaginary animals. · view the constellation · filed as X1381

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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.

  • U.S.*Baughman
  • North CarolinaBrown Collection I 703.
Within the index

Filed under Lies about imaginary animals.

Filed beside it
Lie: imaginary snakes

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