Plants from body of slain person or animal

Motif

Plants from body of slain person or animal.

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

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 23, 129
S. Am. Indian (Mataco)Métraux MAFLS XL 128, (Caingang): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (1) 473.
general Dh I 79. India: *Thompson-Balys

Within the index

Filed under Creation of plants by transformation.

12 finer motifs beneath it

Plants from grave of dead person or animal Plants from foetus or body of stillborn child 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

Filed beside it

Plants from tears Plant from spittle Object transformed to plant One plant transformed into another Plants from transformed person (animal)

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