Person or animal jumps back to starting place (from midair)

Motif

Person or animal jumps back to starting place (from midair).

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies: logical absurdities. · Absurd disregard of natural laws. · view the constellation · filed as X1741.2

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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.

Within the index

Filed under Lies about gravitation.

Filed beside it

Person or animal rises into the air in defiance of gravity. (Cf. D2135.0.1.)Law of gravity is petrified in petrified forest Lie: anvil swims river

Carried in tale types

Jumping Back to the Starting Place (previously Jumper over Water Turns Around Midway of Jump and Returns) · ATU 1889J1 recorded variant

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