Schlaraffenland lies three miles beyond Christmas

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

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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.

general BP III 250.

Within the index

Filed under Lies about numbers.

Travels with

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 193035 recorded variants

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