Kentucky, apparently :D

https://archive.org/details/talltalesofkentu00mack/page/70/mode/2up?view=theater

amazing! also interesting that we have all the emojis we need to capture the motif! 👜🦝❄️

edit: now I do want to do a sideproject to see how many of these motifs can be encapsulated in emoji form 😅

You can start with these:

https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/p/wtf-weird-things-in-folktales.html

:D

the other explanation for the X1115 thing, is that it was never meant as a motif index, rather a bug tracker for feature development. Early sprints featured reasonable tickets like A23 "Nice fairy tale where the good wins". The X1115 ticket was opened years later, when the project was already on maintenance, for a weird user request involving frozen raccoons (and got merged with W7781 "raccoon steals frozen apples from bag" due to mis-triaging).

Basically how it went, I'm assuming. :D Folklorists started with the obvious, and then read more folktales and realized they had to number stuff like this :D

https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/p/wtf-weird-things-in-folktales.html

I do not have that information but as a general rule a carrion size bag must be able to comfortably fit in the overhead locker.

Any bag of frozen raccoons is a bag of carrion.

It’s indexed under “Thompson, Stiffs.”

quality pun

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