Lie: the great cabbage. (Usually matched by tale of great pot to put cabbage in.)
Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies about plants, fruits, vegetables, and trees. · Lies about vegetables. · view the constellation · filed as X1423.1
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references
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.
- Italian NovellaRotunda.
- general *Type 1960D
- general *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 220 No. 454
Within the index
Filed under Lies about cabbages.
Carried in tale types
- Lying Contest (previously The Hero Forces the Princess to Say, 'That is a Lie') · ATU 8522 recorded variants
- The Great Vegetable · ATU 1960D1 recorded variant