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• Lie: the great animal. X1201
• Lie: animals inherit acquired characteristics or conditions. X1202
• Small cart serves as back legs for crippled sow. Pigs also have these carts. X1202.1
• Lie: animal's food affects him in unusual way. (E.g. Pine tops: milk good for cough syrup.) X1203
• Lie: animals eat one another up. X1204
• Two wolves eat each other up so that only tails are left. X1204.1
• Lie: two birds swallow each other. X1204.2
• Lie: venom of animal (snake, hornet, bee) causes object to swell. X1205
• Snake strikes object, causing it to swell. X1205.1
• Lies: animals trained to respond to certain sounds: absurd result. X1206
• Animals already cooked for eating. X1208
• Roast pigs run around with knife and fork in back ready for eating. X1208.1
• Lie: roast hens fly, heads to sky, tails to ground. X1208.2
• Lies about mammals. X1210
• Lies about cats. X1211
• Lie: cat scratches out bear's tongue. X1211.1
• Lie: crippled cat uses wooden leg to kill mice. X1211.2
• Lies about wildcats. X1212
• Lies about panthers. X1213
• Lies about dogs. X1215
• Dog and other animal chase each other in hot weather. X1215.1
• Lie: large dog. X1215.2
• Lie: small dog. X1215.3
• Lie: weak dog. X1215.4
• Lie: tough dog. X1215.5
• Lie: ferocious dog. X1215.6
• Lie: fast dog. X1215.7
• Lie: intelligent dog. X1215.8
• Lie: obedient or dutiful dog. X1215.9
• Lie: dog with remarkable scent. X1215.10
• Lie: the split dog. Put back together but back legs point upwards. X1215.11
• Lie: greyhounds drag mill out of water. X1215.12
• Lies about wolves. X1216
• The wolf harnessed. Eats the horses, is harnessed and runs in the harness. X1216.1
• Lies about bears. X1221
• Lies about chipmunks. X1224
• Lie: the big chipmunk. X1224.1
• Lies about mice. X1226
• Lie: mice consecrate bishop. X1226.1
• Lies about rats. X1227
• Lie: extraordinary hog. X1233
• Lie: large hog. X1233.1
• Lie: large boar has bristles as long as pitchfork tines. X1233.1.1
• The great wild-boar. Tusks go through tree and come out on other side. X1233.1.2
• Lie: tough hog. X1233.2
• Hog finds dynamite supply, eats it, walks behind mule; the mule kicks the hog. The explosion kills the mule, blows down the barn, breaks windows out of house. The hog is ill for several days. X1233.2.1
• Lies about thin hogs. X1233.3
• Miscellaneous lies about hogs. X1233.4
• Lie: salesman guarantees sow to bear male, then female, then kid. X1233.4.1
• Lie: remarkable cow. X1235
• Large cow. (Cf. B871.1.1.) X1235.1
• Cow wears church bell for cowbell. X1235.1.1
• Lie about cow's rich milk. X1235.2
• Cow gives so much cream that several men do nothing but skim cream. X1235.2.1
• Owner provides cow with green goggles, feeds her sawdust or snow. X1235.3
• Lie: cow climbs to roof. X1235.4
• Lie: cow puts bread in oven. X1235.5
• Lie: remarkable ox or steer. X1237
• Lies about strong oxen. X1237.1
• Man plows through stump which catches the back of his pants in cleft. His oxen continue to pull; he holds onto the plow, pulls the stump out of the ground. X1237.1.1
• Lie: the remarkable blue ox. X1237.2
• Lies about horses. X1241
• The great horse. X1241.1
• Well-trained horse. X1241.2
• Horse takes cattle out to pasture; brings them in by himself. X1241.2.1
• Trained horse as harvester and hunter. He rolls in the field. Oats in his flanks; club in his tail kills birds. (Cf. X1252.1.) X1241.2.2
• Lie: horses knead dough. X1241.2.3
• Lies about mules. X1242
• Lies about asses. X1242.0.1
• Lie: ass with silver nose hunts hares. X1242.0.1.1
• Lies about sheep. X1243
• Lie: the great Darby ram. X1243.1
• Lies about goats. X1244
• Lie: goat carries one hundred cartloads of grease. X1244.1
• Lie: goats heat oven. X1244.2
• The great he-goat. X1244.3
• Lies about birds. X1250
• Lies about crows. X1252
• Lie: crows mow meadow. X1252.1
• Lies about doves. X1256
• Lie: doves tear up wolf. X1256.1
• Lies about geese. X1258
• Lie: man carried through air by geese. X1258.1
• Lie: the tough goose. X1258.2
• Remarkable ducks. X1261
• Remarkable hawk. X1267
• Hawk flies away with geese on a line. They have been tied together as a protection. X1267.1
• Lie: hawk swims. X1267.2
• Lies about insects. X1280
• Lies about crossbreeding of insects. X1280.1
• Bumblebees imported to rout mosquitoes; the two insects crossbreed and have stingers on both ends. X1280.1.1
• Lies about ferocious insects. X1280.2
• Insects eat team of horses or mules, pitch horseshoes to see who gets what is left. X1280.2.1
• Lies about bees. X1282
• Lie: the great bee. Liar says that in a certain place bees are as big as sheep. – And the bee-hives? – The same as ours. – How do the bees get in? (Various answers.) X1282.1
• Lies about fleas. X1285
• Remarkable mosquitoes. X1286
• Lie: the large mosquito. X1286.1
• Lie: wingspread of large mosquito. X1286.1.1
• Lie: weight of large mosquito. X1286.1.2
• Lie: mosquito's long bill. X1286.1.3
• Large mosquitoes fly off with kettle. They have drilled through kettle. Their bills are clinched inside like nails. X1286.1.4
• Large mosquitoes carry off prey. X1286.1.5
• Big mosquito with golden palace in his mouth. X1286.1.6
• Large mosquitoes – miscellaneous. X1286.1.7
• Lies about ferocious mosquitoes. X1286.2
• Lie: extraordinary fireflies. X1287
• Lies about grasshoppers. X1288
• Lies about bedbugs. X1291
• Lies about flies. X1294
• Lie: flies build bridge. X1294.1
• Lies about gnats. X1295
• The tragic death of the three gnats. One of them meets his death between the horns of two struggling oxen, another because of two restless stallions, the third during a tussle between two giants. X1295.1
• Lies about lice. X1296
• Rag so full of lice it can move. X1296.1
• Lies about fish. (Cf. X1150.) X1300
• Lie: the great fish. X1301
• Lie: remarkable actions of big fish. X1303
• Big fish pulls man or boat. (Cf. B551.1.) X1303.1
• Lie: tamed fish lives on dry land. X1306
• Dogfish act like dogs. X1316
• Crowded fish. X1317
• Lies about reptiles. X1320
• Lies about snakes. X1321
• Lie: the great snake. X1321.1
• Lie: remarkably long snake. X1321.1.1
• Lie: great snake is thought to be a log. X1321.1.2
• Lie: large number of snakes. X1321.2
• Lies about remarkable kinds of snakes. X1321.3
• Lie: hoop snake. Snake takes its tail in its mouth and rolls like a hoop toward its victim. (Cf. B765.1.) X1321.3.1
• Lie: extraordinary amphibia and other animals. X1340
• Lies about frogs. X1342
• Lie: the big frog. X1342.1
• The great frog. Eaten by one larger and this in turn by crow. X1342.1.1
• Ferocious frog. X1342.2
• Lie: frog eats plowshare. (Cf. J1531.2.) X1342.3
• Lies about crabs. X1344
• Lie: crab hunts hare. X1344.1
• Lies about snails. X1345
• Lie: snail kills lion. X1345.1
• Lies about worms. X1346
• Lies about imaginary animals. X1370
• Lie: the side-hill beast. Animal with two short legs on one side for convenience in living on hillsides. It can walk around the hill in only one direction. X1381
• Lie: imaginary snakes. X1396
• Lie: seaserpent. X1396.1
• Lies about plants, fruits, vegetables, and trees. X1400
• Lie: the great vegetable. X1401
• Lie: animals live inside great vegetable, usually feeding from it. X1401.1
• Lie: harvesting great vegetable. X1401.2
• Lie: hole from which great vegetable is removed. X1401.3
• Lie about the fast-growing plants. X1402
• Lie: plants produce fruit in remarkably short time after planting. (Cf. F815.1, F811.13, F971.7.) X1405
• Lies about fruits. (Cf. X1402.1, X1405.) X1410
• Lie: the large fruit. X1411
• Lie: the great melon. X1411.1
• Lie: large watermelon. X1411.1.1
• Lies about large pumpkins. X1411.2
• Lie: large pumpkin vine. X1411.3
• Lie: the great pear. X1411.4
• Lies about vegetables. X1420
• Lies about cabbages. X1423
• Lie: the great cabbage. (Usually matched by tale of great pot to put cabbage in.) X1423.1
• The great mushroom. X1424
• Lies about turnips. X1431
• Lies about big turnips. X1431.1
• Lies about potatoes. X1435
• Lie: large potatoes. X1435.1
• Lies about field crops. X1450
• Lies about corn (maise). X1455
• Lie: remarkable cornstalks. X1455.1
• Lie: remarkable yield of corn. X1455.2
• Lies about trees. X1470
• Lies about large trees. (Cf. F811.14.) X1471
• Lie: tree bears unusual fruit. X1472
• Lie: pancakes growing on lime-tree. X1472.1
• Lies about flowers. X1480
• Lie: remarkable lilies. X1481
• Lie: miscellaneous plant motifs. X1490
• Lie: man raises eggs from eggplant. X1495
• Lies about geography and topography. X1500
• Schlaraffenland. (Land of Cockaygne.) Land in which impossible things happen. (Cf. X1712.) X1503
• Land in which highest praise parents can earn is that they marry their children when they are babies. X1503.1
• Blind town, its king fourfold blind. X1503.2
• Lie: land where all things are sold for the same price. X1503.3
• Mountain of grain to be eaten through on way to Schlaraffenland. (Cf. X1712.) X1503.4
• Topsy-turvy land. Land where all is opposite from the usual. X1505
• House where omens go by contraries. X1505.1
• The extraordinary names. A place where animals and things are designated by senseless names. (Cf. Z32.2.1.) X1506
• [First Edition: X961. Extraordinary objects or actions in Schlaraffenland.] X961[1st ed.]
• Lies about land features. X1510
• Lies about mountains and hills. X1520
• Remarkably narrow valleys. X1521
• Lies about steep slopes of mountains. X1523
• Lie: country so steep that people look up chimney to see when the cows come home. X1523.1
• Lies about farming on steep mountain. X1523.2
• Lies about mountain roads. X1526
• Crooked railroads in mountains or hills. (Cf. X1815.) X1526.1
• Mountain of unusual material. X1528
• Lie: mountain of cheese. X1528.1
• Lies about remarkable soil. X1530