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

Motif

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

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

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

West IndiesFlowers 586.
general Type 2200
general England, U.S., Canada: *Baughman

Within the index

Filed under Formulistic framework for tales.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Tale-teller frightens listener: yells "Boo" at exciting point Catch tale: teller is killed in his own story

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

Lie used as catch tale. (Cf. Z13.)

Carried in tale types

Catch Tales · ATU 22001 recorded variant

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