μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

The extraordinary names. A place where animals and things are designated by senseless names. (Cf. Z32.2.1.)

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies about geography and topography. · Lies about geography and topography. · view the constellation · filed as X1506

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Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

  • West IndiesFlowers 585.
  • general Type 1940
  • general BP IV 183
  • general Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XXVII 135
  • general Wisser ibid. XXVIII 135
Within the index

Filed under Lies about geography and topography.

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Schlaraffenland. (Land of Cockaygne.) Land in which impossible things happen. (Cf. X1712.)Topsy-turvy land. Land where all is opposite from the usual[First Edition: X961. Extraordinary objects or actions in Schlaraffenland.]
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The death of the little hen described with unusual words. Each act of mourning described by a neologism: the table untables itself. (Cf. X1506.)
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