Man can hear grass (wool) grow — Mythoi

Motif

Man can hear grass (wool) grow.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Persons with extraordinary powers. · Extraordinary powers of perception. · view the constellation · filed as F641.1

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic Boberg
Irish Hyde Beside the Fire (London 1890) 23
Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "avoine".
general *Type 513
general Hdwb. d. Märchens I 432a n. 55
general *BP II 95ff.
general *Fb "høre" I 755b, IV 238b

Within the index

Filed under Person of remarkable hearing. (Cf. X936.)

Filed beside it

Man can hear ant leave nest fifty miles away Man can hear one sleeping by putting ear to ground

Carried in tale types

Six Go through the Whole World · ATU 513A 4 recorded variants

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “grass” · wander