Speaking beans rebuke wife for misdeed. (Cf. D983.1.)

Motif

Speaking beans rebuke wife for misdeed. (Cf. D983.1.)

Magic. · Magic objects. · Characteristics of magic objects. · Automatic magic objects. · Magic speaking objects. · view the constellation · filed as D1619.1

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Boggs FFC XC 124 No. 1374A.

Within the index

Filed under Miscellaneous speaking objects.

Filed beside it

Eaten object speaks from inside person's body Fruits that laugh or cry

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Magic bean

Carried in tale types

Wife Says Cat Ate the Meat · ATU 1373A* 1 recorded variant

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