Walking on grass-blades without bending them — Mythoi

Motif

Walking on grass-blades without bending them.

Marvels. · Extraordinary occurrences. · Extraordinary behavior of trees and plants. · view the constellation · filed as F973.2

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross
Welsh MacCulloch Celtic 189.

Within the index

Filed under Plants and trees miraculously unbent.

Filed beside it

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

In land of dead the dead walk on grass without bending it and on mud without sinking. (Cf. F973.2.) Fairies do not bend grass as they walk. (Cf. F261.2, F973.2.)

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