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

Filed across the traditions

U.S. Baughman.

Within the index

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

Filed beside it

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

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

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 1960D 1 recorded variant

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