Humor

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• Rich soil produces remarkable crop. X1532
• Rich land: corn grows so fast that it pulls up its own roots. X1532.1
• Lies about water features. X1540
• Lies about hot springs. X1543
• Lies about remarkable underground channels. X1545
• Water passage through the earth. X1545.1
• Remarkable pond. X1546
• Lie: fish pond supplies both fresh fish and cooked. X1546.1
• Lie: remarkable river. X1547
• Lie: round river: runs in circle without outlet. X1547.1
• Lie: river of honey. X1547.2
• Lie: honey flows up high mountain. X1547.2.1
• Geography and topography – miscellaneous motifs. X1550
• Remarkable road. X1551
• Roads go over roofs of houses. X1551.1
• Lies about cities. X1560
• Lie: Rome hanging by thread. X1561
• City into which only married and mothers may enter. X1563
• Village where rubies sell for four pice apiece. X1564
• Lies about weather and climate. X1600
• Lie: year with two summers and no winter. X1602
• Lie: year with two winters and no summer. It is winter all summer and in fall it gets colder. X1603
• Lie: mixed weather: summer in one spot and winter in another nearby. X1605
• Lies about changes in weather. X1606
• Lies about quick change from cold to warm. X1606.1
• Lies about quick change in weather from warm to cold. X1606.2
• Man freezes to saddle. Must be thawed out by the stove. X1606.2.1
• Lies about winds and storms. X1610
• Lies about the wind. X1611
• Lies about big wind (cyclone, tornado). X1611.1
• Lies about cold weather. X1620
• Lies about freezing. (Cf. X1606.2.1.) X1623
• Lie: shadow freezes. X1623.1
• Lie: words freeze. X1623.2
• Lie: frozen words thaw out in the spring. X1623.2.1
• Lie: flame freezes: startling results. X1623.3
• Lies about hot weather. X1630
• Lie: effect of heat on animals. X1633
• Lie: weather so hot that corn pops in fields, animals freeze to death thinking it has snowed. X1633.1
• Lies about dry weather. X1640
• Lie: clouds beaten by man until they promise to water his crops thrice daily. X1642
• Lie: how dry weather affects animals. X1643
• Lie: bullfrogs several years old cannot swim – have never had water to learn in. X1643.1
• Lies about precipitation and dampness. X1650
• Lies about fog. X1651
• Lie: shingling the fog. Man shingling building during thick fog shingles several feet of fog when he gets beyond the roof line. X1651.1
• Ship sails on thick fog. X1651.2
• Lies about snow. X1653
• Lie: fast-melting snow leaves horse dangling in air. X1653.1
• Lie: blue snow. X1653.2
• The man who sold dried snow for salt. X1653.3
• Lies about rain. X1654
• Lie: dry rain. X1654.1
• Lie: extraordinary floods produced by heavy rain. X1654.2
• Lie: heavy rain of boiling water melts palace. X1654.2.1
• Lies about extraordinary mud. X1655
• Lie: the man under the hat, which is the only thing seen above the mud. X1655.1
• Lies about climate. X1660
• Lies about healthy atmosphere. X1663
• Lie: air from healthy climate revives dying person. X1663.1
• Lie: place so healthful that residents shoot man to start cemetery. X1663.2
• Lies: logical absurdities. (Cf. J2200.) X1700
• Lies about numbers. X1710
• Schlaraffenland lies three miles beyond Christmas. X1712
• Absurd disregard of anatomy. (Cf. X1202, X1203, X1204.) X1720
• Lies about surgical operations. X1721
• New backbone for the horse made from a stick. X1721.1
• Lie: man's organs replaced with animal's. (Cf. E782.) He acts like animal. X1721.2
• Lies about swallowing. (Cf. F910.) X1723
• Swallowed person is discovered in animal's stomach still alive. X1723.1
• Fish swallows a gourd fruit where people have taken refuge during rain; hawk swallows fish. X1723.1.1
• Lie: man swallowed by fish and later rescued alive. X1723.1.2
• Falcon and heron eaten by wild boar recovered alive from his body. X1723.2
• Person enters animal's body. X1723.3
• Man crawls into body of animal (after killing it) to escape cold. The animal freezes back together; man must eat his way out. X1723.3.1
• Seeing without eyes. X1724
• Digging without hands. X1725
• Man cuts off own head. X1726
• Lie: man cuts off own head and eats it. X1726.1
• Man cuts off own head, picks it up and replaces it. (Cf. E783.) X1726.2
• Absurd stories about beards. X1727
• Lie: barber shaves wife's beard. X1727.1
• Lies about falling. X1731
• Person falls from great height without injury. X1731.1
• Man falls from height, goes into solid rock up to knees. X1731.2
• Man falls and is buried in earth: goes for spade and digs self out. X1731.2.1
• Lies about sinking. X1733
• Lie: man lifts heavy load, sinks into solid rock. X1733.1
• Man stays under water for long time. X1737
• Man falls through ice, has to swim two miles to come out at an air hole. X1737.1
• Man under the ice. Falls through ice with his horse, wanders around on the river bottom, pushes his spear through ice from below and rises to the surface. X1737.1.1
• Absurd disregard of anatomy – miscellaneous. X1739
• Person swallows pin or needle; it later emerges through skin of relative. X1739.1
• Lie: man makes drinking water from his own skull. X1739.2
• Absurd disregard of natural laws. X1740
• Lies about gravitation. X1741
• Person or animal rises into the air in defiance of gravity. (Cf. D2135.0.1.) X1741.1
• Person or animal jumps back to starting place (from midair). X1741.2
• Law of gravity is petrified in petrified forest. X1741.3
• Lie: anvil swims river. X1741.4
• Lies about occupying space. X1743
• Giants go through small hole where plant has been torn from earth. X1743.1
• Lie: two bullocks go where one cannot. X1743.2
• Lie: 900,000 roofs on point of needle. X1743.3
• Absurd disregard of the nature of objects. X1750
• Lies about watches. X1755
• Watch continues to run indefinitely when lost (swallowed). X1755.1
• Disregard of nature of basketry. X1756
• Lie: people carry wine in baskets. X1756.1
• Rope of sand (chaff). (Cf. F843.) X1757
• Rope of dry dust. X1757.1
• Absurd disregard of the nature of non-material things. X1760
• Absurd disregard of the nature of holes. X1761
• Person pulls up old oil wells and sells them for post holes after sawing them up into short lengths. X1761.1
• Lie: people eat the bungholes from barrels. X1761.2
• Absurdity based on the nature of the object. X1780
• Lies about boats with light draft. X1781
• Boat sailing over dry river bed (rice water). X1781.1
• Lies about stretching or shrinking. X1785
• Lie: the stretching and shrinking harness. Man driving team with wagon uphill in rain finds on arrival at the top of the hill that the tugs of rawhide or buckskin have stretched and that the loaded wagon is still at the bottom of the hill. He unhitches the horses and throws the harness across a stump. Sometime later, or the next morning, the sun comes out and shrinks the tugs, drawing the load to the top of the hill. X1785.1
• Man cures rheumatism: puts mosquito milk in a cat's horn, stirs it with duck's crotch. X1787
• Lie: the realistic painting. (Cf. H504.1.) X1788
• Other logical absurdities. X1790
• Lie: deaf, dumb, blind, and lame men catch hare. X1791
• Lies concerning speed. X1796
• Lie: footless man outruns swift horse. X1796.1
• Miscellaneous lies and exaggerations. X1800
• Tall tales about miscellaneous objects. X1810
• Lies about loaves of bread. X1811
• Lie: the great loaf of bread. X1811.1
• Lie: the great egg. (Cf. B31.1.1.) X1813
• Lie: remarkable railroad. X1815
• Lie about rough railroad. X1815.1
• Lies about slow trains. X1815.2
• Lies about bridges. (Cf. F842.) X1817
• Lie: razor-sharp sword as footbridge. X1817.1
• Other tall tales. X1850
• Man in moon lets himself down. (Cf. A751.) X1851
• Boy shot from a cannon. X1852
• Boy with hat of butter, clothes of paper, etc. X1853
• Man in hollow tree defends himself successfully from leopard and bear. X1854
• The boy in the hollow tree. He frightens the woodchopper who leaves behind his horse. X1854.1
• Lie: plow without horse or wheels. X1855
• Lie: suckling children rock mother in cradle. X1856
• Lie: child throws down a kid. X1856.1
• Lie: child throws down mill-wheels from one town to another. X1856.2
• Lie: man drowned on mountain. X1857
• Lie: man cuts ice with own head. X1858
• Lie: the hunt for the lost bee. X1861
• The over-hasty toad (beetle). Is years ascending steps. On last step falls and curses haste. X1862
• Why gypsies have no churches. They ate up their churches made of cheese and bacon. (Cf. X650.) X1863
• Lie: warrior whose horse is cut in two continues to ride on the half horse. X1864
• Lie: the great noise from the bass-viol. X1866
• [First Edition: X1020. Exaggerations.] X1020[1st ed.]