Why agar-tree has magic properties. A transformed magician

Motif

Why agar-tree has magic properties. A transformed magician.

Mythological motifs. · Origin of plant characteristics. · Various origins of plant characteristics. · Miscellaneous reasons for plant characteristics. · view the constellation · filed as A2731.4

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India Thompson-Balys.

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Filed under Plant characteristics from transformation.

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Trickster's burnt flesh becomes gum on trees Plant characteristics from tears. (Cf. A2755.3.1, A2755.3.2.) Blood from wizard becomes red grain of cedar. Bleeding head of wizard who tries to kill the sun placed on top of a tree. (Cf. A2755.1.)

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