Lies about sinking — Mythoi

Motif

Lies about sinking.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies: logical absurdities. · Absurd disregard of anatomy. · view the constellation · filed as X1733

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Greco-Roman The Metamorphoses of Ovid , Book 5

Within the index

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

1 finer motif beneath it

Lie: man lifts heavy load, sinks into solid rock

Filed beside it

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

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