Endless tale: corn carried away grain at a time

Motif

Endless tale: corn carried away grain at a time.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Formulistic framework for tales. · view the constellation · filed as Z11.1

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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.

general England, U.S.: *Baughman.

Within the index

Filed under Endless tales. Hundreds of sheep to be carried over stream one at a time, etc. The wording of the tale so arranged as to continue indefinitely.

Filed beside it

Endless tale: hundreds of birds in snare fly away one at a time

Carried in tale types

Corn Carried Away One Grain at a Time · ATU 23011 recorded variant

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