Schlaraffenland lies three miles beyond Christmas — Mythoi

Motif

Schlaraffenland lies three miles beyond Christmas.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies: logical absurdities. · Lies about numbers. · view the constellation · filed as X1712

Cited in the index

general BP III 250.

Within the index

Filed under Lies about numbers.

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Schlaraffenland. (Land of Cockaygne.) Land in which impossible things happen. (Cf. X1712.) Mountain of grain to be eaten through on way to Schlaraffenland. (Cf. X1712.)

Carried in tale types

Schlaraffenland · ATU 1930 35 recorded variants

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