Lie: the great vegetable

Motif

Lie: the great vegetable.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies about plants, fruits, vegetables, and trees. · Lies about plants, fruits, vegetables, and trees. · view the constellation · filed as X1401

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Yoruba The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa , Chapter 15
Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 12, Section CXXXVI

Within the index

Filed under Lies about plants, fruits, vegetables, and trees.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Lie: animals live inside great vegetable, usually feeding from it Lie: harvesting great vegetable Lie: hole from which great vegetable is removed

Filed beside it

Lie about the fast-growing plants Lie: plants produce fruit in remarkably short time after planting. (Cf. F815.1, F811.13, F971.7.)

Carried in tale types

The Great Vegetable · ATU 1960D 1 recorded variant

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