The over-hasty toad (beetle). Is years ascending steps. On last step falls and curses haste — Mythoi

Motif

The over-hasty toad (beetle). Is years ascending steps. On last step falls and curses haste.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Miscellaneous lies and exaggerations. · Other tall tales. · view the constellation · filed as X1862

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Boggs FFC XC 38 No. 288C*, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 59, 60
West Indies Flowers 585.

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: plow without horse or wheels 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 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

The Over-hasty Toad (Beetle) · ATU 288B* 1 recorded variant

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