Flowers bloom in winter

Motif

Flowers bloom in winter.

Marvels. · Extraordinary occurrences. · Extraordinary behavior of trees and plants. · view the constellation · filed as F971.5

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Depth CommentaryThemis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion, CHAPTER II.

Scholars’ trail — 6references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

IcelandicHerrmann Saxo II 102, MacCulloch Eddic 320
Italian NovellaRotunda.
general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 686
general Alphabet No. 475
general *Pease Cicero De Divinatione 217 (U. of Illinois Studies in Language and Literature)
general Stier in Pauly-Wissowa XV (1932) 2026

Within the index

Filed under Miraculous blossoming and bearing of fruit.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Fruit produced out of season at saint's request Apples at Christmas. Tree bears apples only at Christmas. Blossoms at midnight and is full of apples by morning [First Edition (Additions and Corrections): F971.5.3. Flowers blooming at Christmas.]

Filed beside it

Dry rod blossoms Rose grows from table (stone)Thorn growing in wound becomes tree Fruitless tree bears fruit. Done at saint's request 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

Travels with

Summer magically lengthened. (Cf. F162.1.1, F971.5.)

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