Lie: Rome hanging by thread

Motif

Lie: Rome hanging by thread.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies about geography and topography. · Lies about cities. · view the constellation · filed as X1561

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

general Type 1930
general BP III 244ff.

Within the index

Filed under Lies about cities.

Filed beside it

City into which only married and mothers may enter Village where rubies sell for four pice apiece

Carried in tale types

Schlaraffenland · ATU 19302 recorded variants

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