Digging without hands — Mythoi

Motif

Digging without hands.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies: logical absurdities. · Absurd disregard of anatomy. · view the constellation · filed as X1725

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Irish Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster , Ch. 7 FATE OF THE SONS OF USNACH

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Absurd disregard of anatomy. (Cf. X1202, X1203, X1204.)

Filed beside it

Lies about surgical operations Lies about swallowing. (Cf. F910.) Seeing without eyes Man cuts off own head Absurd stories about beards Lies about falling Lies about sinking Man stays under water for long time Absurd disregard of anatomy – miscellaneous

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