μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Dry rod blossoms.

Marvels. · Extraordinary occurrences. · Extraordinary behavior of trees and plants. · view the constellation · filed as F971.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish Plummer cliv, *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 108, Beal XXI 318, 334
  • Spanish Espinosa Jr. No. 186
  • Jewish *Neuman
  • West Indies Flowers 438.
  • general *Type 756 ABC, 757
  • general BP III 463, 465, 471 n. 1
  • general *Dh II 265ff.
  • general Fb "nåde" II 726b, "stav" III 541b
  • general RTP IX 504, XIII 505, XV 61, XIX 66, 336, 532, XXI 123, XXV 141
  • general **Andrejev FFC LIV 34, LXIX 126, 129ff., 241ff.
  • general Saintyves Essais de folklore biblique 61ff.
  • general Zs. f. Vksk. X 196f., XIII 72, XV 393
  • general Alphabet No. 568
  • general *Loomis White Magic 94, 114
  • general Goebel Jüdische Motive im märchenhafte Erzählungsgut (Gleiwitz, 1932) 34ff.
Within the index

Filed under Miraculous blossoming and bearing of fruit.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Dry rod blossoms on night of saint's birth Witch's horse-switch blossoms Moss grows on staff overnight. (Cf. F979.18.)
Filed beside it
Rose grows from table (stone) Thorn growing in wound becomes tree Fruitless tree bears fruit. Done at saint's request Flowers bloom in winter Flowers spring up when saint strikes ground Sowing and reaping same day Trees put forth leaves on arrival of God in paradise Creeper which blossoms once only in a thousand years
Carried in tale types

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