Rope of sand (chaff). (Cf. F843.)
Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies: logical absurdities. · Absurd disregard of the nature of objects. · view the constellation · filed as X1757
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 513
Within the index
Filed under Absurd disregard of the nature of objects.
1 finer motif beneath it
Filed beside it
Travels with
Carried in tale types
- Lying Contest (previously The Hero Forces the Princess to Say, 'That is a Lie') · ATU 8522 recorded variants
- The Man who Fell Out of a Balloon · ATU 18821 recorded variant
- Descent from Sky on Rope of Sand (Chaff) · ATU 1889E1 recorded variant