The boy in the hollow tree. He frightens the woodchopper who leaves behind his horse.
Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Miscellaneous lies and exaggerations. · Other tall tales. · view the constellation · filed as X1854.1
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references
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.
- RussianAndrejev No. 1877*.
- general Type 1877*
Within the index
Filed under Man in hollow tree defends himself successfully from leopard and bear.
Carried in tale types
- The Boy in the Hollow Tree · ATU 1877*1 recorded variant