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Motif

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

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross
  • Italian Novella *Rotunda
  • India Thompson-Balys.
  • general *Type 1930
  • general *BP III 244ff.
  • general Boccaccio Decameron VIII No. 3 (Lee 254)
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Filed under Lies about geography and topography.

4 finer motifs beneath 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 Lie: land where all things are sold for the same price Mountain of grain to be eaten through on way to Schlaraffenland. (Cf. X1712.)
Filed beside it
Topsy-turvy land. Land where all is opposite from the usual The extraordinary names. A place where animals and things are designated by senseless names. (Cf. Z32.2.1.) [First Edition: X961. Extraordinary objects or actions in Schlaraffenland.]
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
All nature composed of food in vision. (Cf. V514, X1503.) Schlaraffenland lies three miles beyond Christmas Greatest liar made king of Schlaraffenland. (Cf. X1503.)
Carried in tale types

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