Unfinished tales. Just as the interest is aroused the narrator quits. "If the bowl had been stronger my tale had been longer."

Motif

Unfinished tales. Just as the interest is aroused the narrator quits. "If the bowl had been stronger my tale had been longer."

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Formulistic framework for tales. · view the constellation · filed as Z12

Scholars’ trail — 4references

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 *Types 2250, 2260
general BP II 210, III 455
general Taylor Hdwb. d. Märchens II 189b
general Köhler-Bolte I 269.

Within the index

Filed under Formulistic framework for tales.

Filed beside it

Beginning formulas End formulas Transition formulas 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 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

Carried in tale types

Unfinished Tales · ATU 22501 recorded variant

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