Lies about boats with light draft

Motif

Lies about boats with light draft.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies: logical absurdities. · Absurdity based on the nature of the object. · view the constellation · filed as X1781

Filed across the traditions

U.S. *Baughman.

Within the index

Filed under Absurdity based on the nature of the object.

1 finer motif beneath it

Boat sailing over dry river bed (rice water)

Filed beside it

Lies about stretching or shrinking Man cures rheumatism: puts mosquito milk in a cat's horn, stirs it with duck's crotch Lie: the realistic painting. (Cf. H504.1.)

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