μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Lies about cabbages.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies about plants, fruits, vegetables, and trees. · Lies about vegetables. · view the constellation · filed as X1423

Filed across the traditions
  • U.S. *Baughman.
Within the index

Filed under Lies about vegetables.

1 finer motif beneath it
Lie: the great cabbage. (Usually matched by tale of great pot to put cabbage in.)
Filed beside it
The great mushroom Lies about turnips Lies about potatoes
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Scotsman thinks moose is a mouse, asks what rats look like in this country. (Cf. X1423.)
Carried in tale types

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