ATU 1960M The Great Insect

ATU 1960M

The Great Insect

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

Large mosquitoes fly off with kettle. They have drilled through kettle. Their bills are clinched inside like nails. 54 variants
Large mosquitoes carry off prey. 28 variants
Big mosquito with golden palace in his mouth. 28 variants
Lies about insects. 2 variants
Lies about crossbreeding of insects. 2 variants
Bumblebees imported to rout mosquitoes; the two insects crossbreed and have stingers on both ends. 2 variants
Lies about ferocious insects. 2 variants
Insects eat team of horses or mules, pitch horseshoes to see who gets what is left. 2 variants
Lies about bees. 2 variants
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.) 2 variants
Lies about fleas. 2 variants
Remarkable mosquitoes. 2 variants
Lie: the large mosquito. 2 variants
Lie: wingspread of large mosquito. 2 variants
Lie: weight of large mosquito. 2 variants
Lie: mosquito's long bill. 2 variants
Large mosquitoes – miscellaneous. 2 variants
Lies about ferocious mosquitoes. 2 variants
Lie: extraordinary fireflies. 2 variants
Lies about grasshoppers. 2 variants
Lies about bedbugs. 2 variants
Lies about flies. 2 variants
Lie: flies build bridge. 2 variants
Lies about gnats. 2 variants
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. 2 variants
Lies about lice. 2 variants
Rag so full of lice it can move. 2 variants

Type numbers and names after Aarne–Thompson–Uther, via Hagedorn, trilogy (2022), CC-BY-NC-SA; motif links weighted by the dataset’s recorded tale variants. Served as classification facts with attribution.