Lie: plow without horse or wheels — Mythoi

Motif

Lie: plow without horse or wheels.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Miscellaneous lies and exaggerations. · Other tall tales. · view the constellation · filed as X1855

Cited in the index

general Type 1930
general BP III 244ff.

Within the index

Filed under Other tall tales.

Filed beside it

Man in moon lets himself down. (Cf. A751.) Boy shot from a cannon Boy with hat of butter, clothes of paper, etc Man in hollow tree defends himself successfully from leopard and bear Lie: suckling children rock mother in cradle Lie: man drowned on mountain Lie: man cuts ice with own head Lie: the hunt for the lost bee The over-hasty toad (beetle). Is years ascending steps. On last step falls and curses haste Why gypsies have no churches. They ate up their churches made of cheese and bacon. (Cf. X650.) Lie: warrior whose horse is cut in two continues to ride on the half horse Lie: the great noise from the bass-viol

Carried in tale types

Schlaraffenland · ATU 1930 2 recorded variants

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