Lies about stretching or shrinking

Motif

Lies about stretching or shrinking.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies: logical absurdities. · Absurdity based on the nature of the object. · view the constellation · filed as X1785

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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 Absurdity based on the nature of the object.

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Lie: the stretching and shrinking harness. Man driving team with wagon uphill in rain finds on arrival at the top of the hill that the tugs of rawhide or buckskin have stretched and that the loaded wagon is still at the bottom of the hill. He unhitches the horses and throws the harness across a stump. Sometime later, or the next morning, the sun comes out and shrinks the tugs, drawing the load to the top of the hill

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Lies about boats with light draft 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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