μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Sky rests on top of trees: hence flat leaves. (Cf. A2761.3.)

Mythological motifs. · Origin of plant characteristics. · Various origins of plant characteristics. · Miscellaneous reasons for plant characteristics. · view the constellation · filed as A2741.3

Filed across the traditions
  • Polynesian Dixon 51 n. 55.
Within the index

Filed under Plant characteristics from accident to original plant.

Filed beside it
Bean laughs till it splits: cause of black stripe. (Cf. A2793.1, F1025.1.) Yams dropped by bird and split: why some are good and some bad. (Cf. A2793.3.) 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 plant-leaves are flat. (Cf. A2741.3.)

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