Elephant (camel) put in pocket as a curiosity to show friends

Motif

Elephant (camel) put in pocket as a curiosity to show friends.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lie: the remarkable man. · Lie: the remarkable man – his birth, growth, death, physical powers, strength. · Lie: remarkably strong man. · view the constellation · filed as X941.3

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

Within the index

Filed under Remarkable lifter. (Cf. F624.)

Filed beside it

Whole village lifted Fight on old woman's hand Wind blows group of persons into woman's eye

Carried in tale types

The Great Wrestlers · ATU 1962A1 recorded variant

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