Upside-down tree — Mythoi

Motif

Upside-down tree.

Marvels. · Extraordinary places and things. · Extraordinary trees, plants, fruit, etc. · view the constellation · filed as F811.15

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Cited in the index

general Branches in ground, roots in air. Africa (Bambara): Travélé 205ff. No. 66.

Within the index

Filed under Extraordinary tree.

Filed beside it

Trees of extraordinary material Tree with extraordinary leaves Tree of extraordinary color Extraordinary location of tree Food-producing trees Tree with musical branches Tree with extraordinary fruit Tree with fruits like human heads Trees with green birds hanging by claws Tree in which people live in nests Trees disappear at sunset Trees grow and "ungrow" each day. (Cf. F817.1.) Tree blooms and grows ripe fruit nightly. (Cf. F815.1, F971.7.) Giant tree: nuts fall scores of miles away, etc Tree bears fruit, flower, and leaf simultaneously. All drop at once Tree with extraordinary buds

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