Lie: the great egg. (Cf. B31.1.1.)

Motif

Lie: the great egg. (Cf. B31.1.1.)

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Miscellaneous lies and exaggerations. · Tall tales about miscellaneous objects. · view the constellation · filed as X1813

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

GermanicGrimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 197197.— THE CEYSTAL BALL.
IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 12, Section CCCXXXIX
NorseThe Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga), XIII
Hermetic / AlchemicalThrice-Greatest Hermes, Volume I: Prolegomena, Chapter VII: The Myth of Man in the Mysteries

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.

U.S.Baughman
IndiaThompson-Balys.
general *Fb "æg" III 1142a

Within the index

Filed under Tall tales about miscellaneous objects.

Filed beside it

Lies about loaves of bread Lie: remarkable railroad Lies about bridges. (Cf. F842.)

Travels with

Roc's egg

Carried in tale types

The Great Egg · ATU 1960L1 recorded variant

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