Man cures rheumatism: puts mosquito milk in a cat's horn, stirs it with duck's crotch

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Man cures rheumatism: puts mosquito milk in a cat's horn, stirs it with duck's crotch.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies: logical absurdities. · Absurdity based on the nature of the object. · view the constellation · filed as X1787

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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 Absurdity based on the nature of the object.

Filed beside it

Lies about boats with light draft Lies about stretching or shrinking Lie: the realistic painting. (Cf. H504.1.)

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