μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Extraordinary tree.

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

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Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
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Filed under Extraordinary trees, plants, fruit, etc.

24 finer motifs beneath 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 Upside-down tree Tree bears fruit, flower, and leaf simultaneously. All drop at once Tree with extraordinary buds Tree bears fruit three times yearly. (Cf. F811.7.1.1.) Tree grows miraculously fast from seed Bleeding tree. Blood drops when tree is cut Marvelous tree (trees) of extraordinary age Extraordinary firewood, of elephant tusks Extraordinary flower-bearing tree in middle of seven forts Man-eating tree. (Cf. G10.)
Filed beside it
Extraordinary forest Extraordinary fruits Extraordinary flower Extraordinary plants Extraordinary vegetables Extraordinary grass Extraordinary garden
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
City inside a tree. (Cf. F811.)

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