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

Motif

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.

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

Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

Irish myth*Cross
Spanish ExemplaKeller
Italian Novella*Rotunda
India*Thompson-Balys.
general *Type 2300
general *BP II 209
general Taylor Hdwb. d. Märchens II 190a

Within the index

Filed under Formulistic framework for tales.

2 finer motifs beneath it

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

Filed beside it

Beginning formulas End formulas Transition formulas Unfinished tales. Just as the interest is aroused the narrator quits. "If the bowl had been stronger my tale had been longer."Catch tales. The manner of the telling forces the hearer to ask a particular question, to which the teller returns a ridiculous answer "Runs." Conventional passages of set form within a tale, usually recited in a different voice from the rest Tale avoiding all pronouns Tales ending with a question Rounds. Stories which begin over and over again and repeat Formulistic conversations Formulistic frameworks – miscellaneous

Travels with

The crow on the tarred bridge. His beak and tail alternately stick. (Endless.) (Cf. Z11.)

Carried in tale types

Endless Tales · ATU 23001 recorded variant

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