Lie: the great melon

Motif

Lie: the great melon.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies about plants, fruits, vegetables, and trees. · Lies about fruits. · view the constellation · filed as X1411.1

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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 *BP II 516.

Within the index

Filed under Lie: the large fruit.

1 finer motif beneath it

Lie: large watermelon

Filed beside it

Lies about large pumpkins Lie: large pumpkin vine Lie: the great pear

Carried in tale types

The Great Vegetable · ATU 1960D1 recorded variant

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