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Bean laughs till it splits: cause of black stripe. (Cf. A2793.1, F1025.1.)

Mythological motifs. · Origin of plant characteristics. · Various origins of plant characteristics. · Miscellaneous reasons for plant characteristics. · view the constellation · filed as A2741.1

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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.

  • LivonianLoorits FFC LXVI 95 No. 121.
  • general Type 295. – Flemish: DeMeyer FFC XXXVII 90 No. 126a
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Filed under Plant characteristics from accident to original plant.

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Yams dropped by bird and split: why some are good and some bad. (Cf. A2793.3.)Sky rests on top of trees: hence flat leaves. (Cf. A2761.3.)Bush loses clothes in shipwreck: hence catches passerby looking for clothes. (Cf. A2792.1.)Why khijur leaves are long and narrow: split with an arrow
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Why bean has black stripe. (Cf. A2741.1.)Bean, straw, and coal go journeying. Coal burns straw in two and falls into the water. Bean laughs until it splits
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