μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • general *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 209 No. 423.
Within the index

Filed under Absurd practices connected with crops.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Planting animal's tail in order to produce young animalsPlanting bones to produce animal
Filed beside it
Numskulls sow cooked grainSowing cheese to bring forth a cowSowing salt to produce saltSowing needles (like seed)Harvesting early for half a cropStones watered to make them grow. (Cf. J1896.1.)
Carried in tale types

wander