μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Vegetable lamb. Generated from ground. Umbilical cord is in the ground and the lambs will die if it is forcibly severed. They are frightened into severing it themselves and then live. Vertebrae of the neck planted to produce new ones.

Animals. · Mythical animals. · Other mythical animals. · view the constellation · filed as B95

Cited in the index
  • general *Laufer JAFL XXVIII 115ff.
Within the index

Filed under Other mythical animals.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Vegetable lamb born from melons (as from eggs) Marine lamb. Wool taken from sea lamb. (Really textiles from shell-fish pinna)
Filed beside it
Mythical serpent Other mythical reptiles Mythical spider Mythical crustacean Beast with human head and shape of smith's bellows Mythical frog Mythical animals – miscellaneous

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