μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 308ff. No. 18, FFC CXXVIII 260ff. No. 160.
  • general Type 1920B
Within the index

Filed under Lying contests.

1 finer motif beneath it
Boy to deceive his uncle: induces uncle to climb tree before deception begins: this is the deception
Filed beside it
Master brought to say, "You lie!"Greatest liar made king of Schlaraffenland. (Cf. X1503.)Claim of property based on unusual lie
Carried in tale types

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