Rounds. Stories which begin over and over again and repeat — Mythoi

Motif

Rounds. Stories which begin over and over again and repeat.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Formulistic framework for tales. · view the constellation · filed as Z17

Filed across the traditions

U.S. Baughman
Lithuanian Balys Index No. 2300
India Thompson-Balys.
general Type 2350
general Taylor JAFL XLVI 88, Hdwb. d. Märchens II 190

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 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 Formulistic conversations Formulistic frameworks – miscellaneous

Carried in tale types

'There Was Once a Woman; the Woman Had a Son · ATU 2013 1 recorded variant

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