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

Filed across the traditions
  • West Indies Flowers 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.

Filed beside it
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.]
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
The death of the little hen described with unusual words. Each act of mourning described by a neologism: the table untables itself. (Cf. X1506.)
Carried in tale types

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