Plants from foetus or body of stillborn child

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Plants from foetus or body of stillborn child.

Mythological motifs. · Origin of trees and plants. · Various origins of plants. · Creation of plants by transformation. · view the constellation · filed as A2611.0.2

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

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Filed under Plants from body of slain person or animal.

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Plants from grave of dead person or animal Human placenta transformed into plant Parts of body of god transformed into plants Parts of human or animal body transformed into plants Corn from body of slain person. (Cf. A2685.1.)Tobacco from grave of bad woman Coconut tree from head of slain monster Pepper plant from body of slain person. (Cf. A2686.3.)Mandrake from blood of person hanged on gallows. (Cf. A2664.)Hair transformed into plants Origin of rue: from drops of Christ's blood

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