Man cuts off own head, picks it up and replaces it. (Cf. E783.)
Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies: logical absurdities. · Absurd disregard of anatomy. · view the constellation · filed as X1726.2
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references
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.
- Missouri FrenchCarrière.
- general Type 852
- general BP II 514
Carried in tale types
- Lying Contest (previously The Hero Forces the Princess to Say, 'That is a Lie') · ATU 8522 recorded variants