Grass refuses to grow in certain spot. Extraordinary event has happened there

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Grass refuses to grow in certain spot. Extraordinary event has happened there.

Marvels. · Extraordinary occurrences. · Extraordinary behavior of trees and plants. · view the constellation · filed as F974

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

IcelandicBoberg.
general Fb "græs" I 499b, IV 188a
general Taylor Attila and Modern Riddles, JAFL LVI (1943) 136--37

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Grass will not grow where blood of murdered person has been shed

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Miraculous blossoming and bearing of fruit Plants and trees miraculously unbent Garden becomes wilderness Extraordinary behavior of trees and plants – miscellaneous

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Grass refuses to grow: indication of innocence of man hanged there. (Cf. E631.2, F974.)

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