New backbone for the horse made from a stick

Motif

New backbone for the horse made from a stick.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies: logical absurdities. · Absurd disregard of anatomy. · view the constellation · filed as X1721.1

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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 Type 1911**.

Within the index

Filed under Lies about surgical operations.

Filed beside it

Lie: man's organs replaced with animal's. (Cf. E782.) He acts like animal

Carried in tale types

Horse's New Backbone · ATU 1911A1 recorded variant

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