Tale-teller frightens listener: yells "Boo" at exciting point

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Tale-teller frightens listener: yells "Boo" at exciting point.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Formulistic framework for tales. · view the constellation · filed as Z13.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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 Type 366
general Canada, England, U.S.: *Baughman.

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Filed under Catch tales. The manner of the telling forces the hearer to ask a particular question, to which the teller returns a ridiculous answer.

Filed beside it

Catch tale: teller is killed in his own story

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