Cumulative tales. Tales arranged in chains. (Kettenmärchen.)

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Cumulative tales. Tales arranged in chains. (Kettenmärchen.)

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Cumulative tales. · Cumulative tales. · view the constellation · filed as Z20

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Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

Irish myth*Cross
IndonesiaDeVries's list No. 316
general **Taylor JAFL XLVI 77ff.
general *Types 2000–2199
general Spanish American: Boas JAFL XXV 219ff., 292f., Espinosa JAFL XXVII 222ff.
general cf. Nouvelles de Sens No. 31.

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6 finer motifs beneath it

Cumulative nonsense tales Chains based on numbers Ehod mi yodea (One; who knows?); Le dodici parole della verità, Las doce palabras retorneadas. The numbers from one to twelve are brought into relation with various objects, often of religious significance How the Rich Man paid his Servant (Lönen hos den rike man). A farmer pays his servant in the first year a hen, in the second a cock, goose, goat, cow, horse, .... girl. farmstead The forgetful man counts the days of the week. On Monday they go to mill, etc. He thus discovers that it is Sunday Fly forgets her name; asks woodcutter, axe, tree, etc., in vain. Finally foal in mare's belly says her name is "fly"

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Formula-tale (Ehod) saves girl from devil. Unsuccessful imitation. (Cf. Z20.)

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