Lie: plants produce fruit in remarkably short time after planting. (Cf. F815.1, F811.13, F971.7.)

Motif

Lie: plants produce fruit in remarkably short time after planting. (Cf. F815.1, F811.13, F971.7.)

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies about plants, fruits, vegetables, and trees. · Lies about plants, fruits, vegetables, and trees. · view the constellation · filed as X1405

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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.

U.S.Baughman.

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Filed under Lies about plants, fruits, vegetables, and trees.

Filed beside it

Lie: the great vegetable Lie about the fast-growing plants

Travels with

Tree blooms and grows ripe fruit nightly. (Cf. F815.1, F971.7.)Vegetables (plants) which mature in miraculously short time. (Cf. F811.13.)Sowing and reaping same day Lies about fruits. (Cf. X1402.1, X1405.)

Carried in tale types

The Great Vegetable · ATU 1960D1 recorded variant

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