Lies about snow

Motif

Lies about snow.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies about weather and climate. · Lies about precipitation and dampness. · view the constellation · filed as X1653

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Literary CrystallizationThe Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, Hell 6
GermanicGrimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 161161.— SNOW-WHITE AND EOSE-EED.
Greco-RomanPausanias's Description of Greece, Book 8

Within the index

Filed under Lies about precipitation and dampness.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Lie: fast-melting snow leaves horse dangling in air Lie: blue snow The man who sold dried snow for salt

Filed beside it

Lies about fog Lies about rain Lies about extraordinary mud

Carried in tale types

Schlaraffenland · ATU 19302 recorded variants

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