Chains involving contradictions or extremes — Mythoi

Motif

Chains involving contradictions or extremes.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Cumulative tales. · Cumulative tales – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as Z51

Cited in the index

general *Taylor JAFL XLVI 81 No. 2014, Hdwb. d. Märchens II 175b.

Within the index

Filed under Cumulative tales – miscellaneous.

1 finer motif beneath it

The house is burned down. – That is too bad. – That is not bad at all, my wife burned it down. – That is good. – That is not good, etc

Filed beside it

Bird avenges caged mate. Builds cart, yokes frogs to it, arms himself with piece of reed, and proclaims war with king. Collects cat, ants, rope, club, and river. He is put by king into fowl house; cat eats up fowls. In stable rope and club beat up horses. In elephant-house ants get into their brains and kill them all. Tied to king's bed, river floods king in his bed. King gives bird back his mate The animals with queer names: as hen (henny-penny), cock (cocky-locky), goose (goosey-poosey). (Cf. Z32.2.1.)

Carried in tale types

Chains Involving Contradictions or Extremes · ATU 2014 1 recorded variant

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