Person or animal rises into the air in defiance of gravity. (Cf. D2135.0.1.)

Motif

Person or animal rises into the air in defiance of gravity. (Cf. D2135.0.1.)

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies: logical absurdities. · Absurd disregard of natural laws. · view the constellation · filed as X1741.1

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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.

U.S.*Baughman.

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Filed under Lies about gravitation.

Filed beside it

Person or animal jumps back to starting place (from midair)Law of gravity is petrified in petrified forest Lie: anvil swims river

Travels with

Levitation. Person able to raise self in the air

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