ATU 1960D
The Great Vegetable
Aarne–Thompson–Uther tale-type index · Anecdotes And Jokes · The full type description is not served here; the number and name are the classification facts.
Motifs the recorded variants carry
- Blind, lame, and deaf as witnesses in court. 1 variant
- The humor of small stature. (Cf. F535.1.) 1 variant
- Dwarf king falls into porridge-pot at court of human king. 1 variant
- Dwarf poet forced to swim in drinking-horn of human being. 1 variant
- Tiny ambassador put on horse with long stirrups. Cannot say anything as he is too busy trying to keep his seat. 1 variant
- Short magistrate wears a high helmet. 1 variant
- Humor of lameness. 1 variant
- Lame man taken on hunt in wheel chair beats the dogs home when they tree a spook or when a bear gets after them. (Cf. K1861.) 1 variant
- Humor of bad singing. 1 variant
- Audience of one hired to listen to egoistic dismal-voiced singer. 1 variant
- Lie: the great vegetable. 1 variant
- Lie: animals live inside great vegetable, usually feeding from it. 1 variant
- Lie: harvesting great vegetable. 1 variant
- Lie: hole from which great vegetable is removed. 1 variant
- Lie about the fast-growing plants. 1 variant
- Lie: plants produce fruit in remarkably short time after planting. (Cf. F815.1, F811.13, F971.7.) 1 variant
- Lies about fruits. (Cf. X1402.1, X1405.) 1 variant
- Lie: the large fruit. 1 variant
- Lie: the great melon. 1 variant
- Lie: large watermelon. 1 variant
- Lies about large pumpkins. 1 variant
- Lie: large pumpkin vine. 1 variant
- Lie: the great pear. 1 variant
- Lies about vegetables. 1 variant
- Lies about cabbages. 1 variant
- Lie: the great cabbage. (Usually matched by tale of great pot to put cabbage in.) 1 variant
- The great mushroom. 1 variant
- Lies about turnips. 1 variant
- Lies about big turnips. 1 variant
- Lies about potatoes. 1 variant
- Lie: large potatoes. 1 variant
- Lies about field crops. 1 variant
- Lies about corn (maise). 1 variant