Tree stretches to sky.
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Motif
Filed across the traditions
- Japanese Ikeda
- Indonesia De 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 Islands Parsons 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
Carried in tale types
- The Tree that Grows up to the Sky (previously The Stretching Tree) · ATU 317 1 recorded variant
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