Tree stretches to sky

Motif

Tree stretches to sky.

Marvels. · Other world journeys. · The upper world. · Access to upper world. · view the constellation · filed as F54.1

Scholars’ trail — 9references

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.

JapaneseIkeda
IndonesiaDe Vries Volksverhalen II 381 Nos. 146, Dixon 239
N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 332 n. 199, Alexander N. Am. 48, Hatt Asiatic Influences 48ff. (Zuñi): Parsons JAFL XXIX 392
Africa (Ekoi)Talbot 344, (Congo): Weeks 202 No. 1, (Boloki): Weeks Cannibals 202
Cape Verde IslandsParsons MAFLS XV (1) 9.
general Type 1960G
general BP II 511. India: *Thompson-Balys
general Tonga, Dobu, San Cristobal: Beckwith Myth 486
general S. Am. Indian (Charentes): Alexander Lat. Am. 308

Within the index

Filed under Tree to upper world.

Filed beside it

Plant grows to sky. (Jack and the Beanstalk)

Carried in tale types

The Tree that Grows up to the Sky (previously The Stretching Tree) · ATU 3171 recorded variant

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