Walking on grass-blades without bending them

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Walking on grass-blades without bending them.

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

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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Irish mythCross
WelshMacCulloch Celtic 189.

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Filed under Plants and trees miraculously unbent.

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Trees unbent

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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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