Lies about freezing. (Cf. X1606.2.1.)

Motif

Lies about freezing. (Cf. X1606.2.1.)

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies about weather and climate. · Lies about cold weather. · view the constellation · filed as X1623

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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.

U.S.*Baughman.

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Filed under Lies about cold weather.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Lie: shadow freezes Lie: words freeze Lie: flame freezes: startling results

Travels with

Man freezes to saddle. Must be thawed out by the stove

Carried in tale types

The Big Freeze · ATU 19671 recorded variant
Severed Head Freezes to Body · ATU 19681 recorded variant

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