Why agar-tree has magic properties. A transformed magician

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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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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 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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