μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Flowers bloom in winter.

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

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic Herrmann Saxo II 102, MacCulloch Eddic 320
  • Italian Novella Rotunda.
  • 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 (Thompson’s cf.)
Summer magically lengthened. (Cf. F162.1.1, F971.5.)

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