Blind town, its king fourfold blind

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Blind town, its king fourfold blind.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies about geography and topography. · Lies about geography and topography. · view the constellation · filed as X1503.2

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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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

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Filed under Schlaraffenland. (Land of Cockaygne.) Land in which impossible things happen. (Cf. X1712.)

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Land in which highest praise parents can earn is that they marry their children when they are babies Lie: land where all things are sold for the same price Mountain of grain to be eaten through on way to Schlaraffenland. (Cf. X1712.)

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