Magic quick growth of crops

Motif

Magic quick growth of crops.

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Filed across the traditions

Irish Cross, O'Suilleabhain 15, 18, Beal XXI 305f.
Icelandic *Boberg
Lithuanian Balys Legends Nos. 200ff.
India Thompson-Balys
Hawaii Beckwith Myth 120.
general Dh I II 61ff.
general England, Scotland: Baughman

Within the index

Filed under Magic control of soil and crops.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Rice grows in single day Magic quick growth of saint's crops Saint causes wheat to ripen prematurely in the time of a famine

Filed beside it

Land made magically fertile. (Cf. D1563, D2081, F349.4, F733.) Withered and dead trees suddenly blossom at saint's command Miraculous speedy growth of a tree Poor soil transformed into lovely garden overnight Field cultivated and sowed by magic

Carried in tale types

Flight to Egypt · ATU 750E 4 recorded variants

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