Lie: year with two summers and no winter.
Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies about weather and climate. · Lies about weather and climate. · view the constellation · filed as X1602
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter XXVIIIXXVIII. The Killing of the Tree-Spirit
- Japanese / ShintoNihongi: Chronicles of Japan, Book 16
- Greco-RomanPausanias's Description of Greece, Book 8
- ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter LXIILXII. The Fire-Festivals of Europe
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.
- CanadaBaughman.