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

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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

Filed across the traditions

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

Within the index

Filed under Extraordinary behavior of trees and plants.

1 finer motif beneath it

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

Filed beside it

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

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

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

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