What is most beautiful? Earth.
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Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 23
- Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 29
- Australian Aboriginal Australian Legendary Tales and More Australian Legendary Tales , 40 How the Sun was Made
- Irish Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster , Ch. 7 FATE OF THE SONS OF USNACH
- Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XVII XVII. The Burden of Royalty
Cited in the index
- general BP II 358.
Carried in tale types
- The Clever Farmgirl [J1111 · ATU 875 702 recorded variants
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