Tree protects Jesus from rain: is green all year. (Cf. A2765.1.)

Motif

Tree protects Jesus from rain: is green all year. (Cf. A2765.1.)

Mythological motifs. · Origin of plant characteristics. · Various origins of plant characteristics. · Plant characteristics as reward. · view the constellation · filed as A2711.4

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

EsthonianAarne FFC XXV 152 No. 80 (fig)
LivonianLoorits FFC LXVI 94 No. 113 (pine).

Within the index

Filed under Plant blessed for pious act. (Cf. A2221.)

3 finer motifs beneath it

Hazel gives Virgin Mary shelter. Blessed Thistle serves as milk-cup for Virgin Mary: white spots on leaves Plant receives name because of service to Virgin Mary

Filed beside it

Plant blessed for help at Jesus' birth Trees blessed that made the cross Plant blessed for helping holy fugitive Rowan helps Thor out of river How the plum tree came to be so hardy: blessed by Ram Fig tree stays with the angels: rewarded with sap of all other trees

Travels with

Why leaves are evergreen. (Cf. A2711.4.)

Carried in tale types

Flight to Egypt · ATU 750E4 recorded variants

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