Munchausen stories

It turns out, crazy things happened in the world in ancient times, at least that's what the world-famous liar Baron Munchausen says! Imagine - he flew on a cannonball and went to the moon several times, sailed in the belly of a fish and became a predatory wolf, herded bees, hunted a hare with eight legs and a deer with a cherry tree growing between its horns, drank with a Turkish sultan, traveled the whole world and experienced many more absolutely incredible miracles.

The stories attributed to Munchausen belong to a tradition of lie stories, examples of which can be found in classical literature, Talmudic Judaism, and early Oriental narratives, and which was further developed in 15th and 16th century Germany in short stories and satirical poetry. Although only four false stories are clearly known to have been truthfully told by Munchausen, various authors attribute a total of over a hundred stories to Munchausen. Some of the most widely known stories are:

*Once, when there was deep snow, Munchausen tied his horse to a stake. During the night, the snow melted and it turned out that the stake was the spire of the church.

*Munchausen caught ducks with bacon tied on a string, but the ducks took to the wings and carried Munchausen through the air.

*Munchausen shot a deer in the head with a cherry stone, from which a cherry tree grew.

*Munchausen grabbed the wolf by the insides and tortured the outside to the inside.

*Munchausen hunted a hare with eight legs.

*Munchausen got his knife that fell in the snow with the help of a stream of urine frozen in icicles.

*Munchausen's horse is split in half by a guard gate. While Munchausen, unaware of it, is riding with the front half to the water trough, the hind half is having fun with the mares in the meadow.

*Munchausen rode a cannonball over a besieged fortress, then jumped onto a cannonball flying in the other direction and made it back.

*Munchausen fell neck-deep into the walker together with the horse, but pulled himself out by the braid together with the whole horse.

*Munchausen threw a silver ax to the moon and to get it back, he climbed a turkey to the moon.