Lie: land where all things are sold for the same price

Motif

Lie: land where all things are sold for the same price.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies about geography and topography. · Lies about geography and topography. · view the constellation · filed as X1503.3

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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.

Within the index

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

Filed beside it

Land in which highest praise parents can earn is that they marry their children when they are babies Blind town, its king fourfold blind Mountain of grain to be eaten through on way to Schlaraffenland. (Cf. X1712.)

Carried in tale types

The Innocent Man Condemned to Death (previously The Innocent Man Chosen to Fit the Stake [Noose]) · ATU 1534A4 recorded variants

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