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

Motif

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

Filed across the traditions

Livonian Loorits FFC LXVI 95 No. 121.
general Type 295. – Flemish: DeMeyer FFC XXXVII 90 No. 126a

Within the index

Filed under Plant characteristics from accident to original plant.

Filed beside it

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

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

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

Carried in tale types

The Bean (Mouse), the Straw, and the Coal · ATU 295 1 recorded variant

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