μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Lie: suckling children rock mother in cradle.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Miscellaneous lies and exaggerations. · Other tall tales. · view the constellation · filed as X1856

Cited in the index
  • general Type 1930
  • general BP III 244ff.
Within the index

Filed under Other tall tales.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Lie: child throws down a kid Lie: child throws down mill-wheels from one town to another
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: plow without horse or wheels 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

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