Lie: anvil swims river

Motif

Lie: anvil swims river.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies: logical absurdities. · Absurd disregard of natural laws. · view the constellation · filed as X1741.4

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

general Type 1930
general BP III 258.

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.)Person or animal jumps back to starting place (from midair)Law of gravity is petrified in petrified forest

Carried in tale types

Schlaraffenland · ATU 19302 recorded variants

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