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

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

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.

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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