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

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

Cited in the index

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 2250 1 recorded variant

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