The great mushroom.
Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies about plants, fruits, vegetables, and trees. · Lies about vegetables. · view the constellation · filed as X1424
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter LVIILVII. Public Scapegoats
- Depth CommentaryThe Interpretation of Dreams, Chapter VII
- Japanese / ShintoNihongi: Chronicles of Japan, Book 24
- Japanese / ShintoNihongi: Chronicles of Japan, Book 29
- Greco-RomanPausanias's Description of Greece, Book 2
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.
- general Type 852
- general *BP II 516.
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