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- God (goddess) of fruit. A433.4
- Sun from fruit kernels thrown into water of flood. A718.3
- Creation of man from fruit (nut). A1253
- Creation of man from fruit. A1253.1
- Man created from animal horns that bloomed and bore him as fruit. A1263.5
- Origin of Adam's apple. Forbidden fruit sticks in Adam's throat. A1319.1
- Paradise lost because of forbidden fruit (drink). (Cf. A1346). A1331.1
- Origin of menstruation – punishment because Eve ate forbidden fruit. A1355.1.1
- Origin of custom of throwing fruits on bridal couple. A1555.1.1
- Tribes from fruits of various trees. A1610.4
- Red fruit thrown at rail's (bird's) head: hence red lump on head. (Cf. A2321.8.) A2215.4
- Animals eat deity's forbidden fruit: punished. (Cf. A2371.3.1.) A2234.2
- Why monkey has first fruits of harvest in every field. A2433.3.19.1
- Origin of breadfruit tree. A2681.11
- Origin of fruits. A2687
- Trees fail to come at god's leavetaking, now bear bitter fruit. A2721.7
- Why sago bears fruit from the stem. A2771.3
- Why banana bears fruit from crown of tree. A2771.4
- Why certain willow tree bears fruit when fruit trees bear. A2771.6
- Why tree has bitter fruit. A2771.8
- Why big trees have small fruit. A2771.9
- Why willow flowers do not bear fruit. A2771.10
- Why tamarind fruit is sour. A2791.5
- Why some trees have no fruit. A2791.7
- Why fruit of sago palm looks like an eye. A2791.9
- Why fruit of date palm looks like breasts of old woman. A2791.11
- Beasts that destroy vineyards and steal fruit. B16.0.1
- Tabu: taking fruit and fish dedicated to goddess. (Cf. C221, C225, C241.) C51.2.2.1
- Tabu: stealing fruits from sacred tree. (Cf. C262.3.) C91.2
- Tabu: eating breadfruit. C224.3
- Tabu: eating certain fruit. C225
- Tabu: eating firstlings (animals, fruit, etc.) C229.4
- Forbidden tree. Fruit of all trees may be eaten, except one. C621
- Tabu: touching fruit. C621.2
- Tabu: taking more than one fruit from certain tree. C762.4
- Transformation: man to fruit. D211
- Transformation: woman (man) to belfruit. D211.3
- Transformation: fruit to person. D431.4
- Transformation: fruit to animal. D441.2
- Transformation: fruit to birds. Trees grow fruits. Those which fall on ground ripen and are normal; those that fall into water become birds and fly away. D441.2.1
- Transformation: fruit to other object. D451.3
- Fruit juice turns to blood. D474.8
- Transformation by eating fruit. (Cf. D981.) Cf. Type 566. D551.1
- Disenchantment from fruit by plucking it from tree. D711.6
- Disenchantment from fruit (flower) by opening it. D721.5
- Woman cooks the magic fruits. (Cf. D981.) D866.1
- Magic fruits and vegetables. D980
- Magic fruit. D981
- Magic fruit juice. D981.0.1
- Magic date (fruit). (Cf. D1375.1.1.9.) D981.9
- Magic plant bears fruit to indicate that heroine is ready to marry. (Cf. D965.) D1310.4.2
- Magic fruit gives supernatural knowledge. D1310.10
- Rejuvenation by fruit. (Cf. D981.) D1338.3
- Rejuvenation by fruit of magic tree. (Cf. D950.) D1338.3.3
- Year added to life by eating fruit of magic tree. (Cf. D950.) D1338.3.3.1
- Fruit of immortality. (Cf. D981.) D1346.6
- Fruit pierced with pins as love charm. (Cf. D981.) D1355.3.3
- Eaten fruit causes sexual desire. (Cf. D981.) D1355.14
- Fruit of magic tree exhilarating. (Cf. D950, D981.) D1359.3.3
- Fruit causes magic sleep. (Cf. D980.) D1364.4
- Magic fruit causes horns to grow on person. (Cf. D981.) D1375.1.1
- Magic fruit removes horns from person. (Cf. D1375.1.1, D981.) D1375.2.1
- Magic fruit causes tail to grow. (Cf. D981.) D1375.4.2
- Magic fruit makes nose long (restores it.) D1376.1.1
- Tree with golden fruit. D1461.0.1
- Magic fruit furnishes treasure. (Cf. D981.) D1461.1
- Magic healing fruit. (Cf. D980.) D1500.1.5
- Magic tree bears prophylactic fruit. (Cf. D950.) D1500.2.7
- Magic fruit from Yggdrasil placed in fire makes childbirth easy. (Cf. D981.) D1501.4
- Wounds healed by eating fruit of magic tree. (Cf. D950.) D1503.11
- Magic song makes barren land fruitful. (Cf. D1275.) D1563.1.2
- Sign of the cross makes barren land fruitful. D1563.1.3
- Speaking fruit. (Cf. D981.) D1610.10
- Fruits that laugh or cry. D1619.3
- Inexhaustible fruit. D1652.1.7
- Magic banana skin always full of fruit. D1652.1.7.2
- Fruit has any taste desired. (Cf. D980.) D1665.3
- Magic tree shoots forth leaf, flower, and fruit at once. (Cf. D950.) D1667.1
- Magic tree continually in fruit. (Cf. D950.) D1668
- Magic sleep when hero breaks fruit open too soon. D1962.6.1
- Magic sickness by making fruit plant dry and shrivel. D2064.8
- Trees magically made fruitless. D2082.0.1
- Fruit obtained from tree by magic. D2105.7
- Fruit magically grows in winter. D2145.2.2
- Vineyard in full fruit and blooming palm found in winter on the night of Christ's Nativity. (Cf. V211.1.) D2145.2.2.1
- Resuscitation of dead by making image of deceased of breadfruit wood. When spirit enters this, image disappears and person is found alive. E53.2
- Soul as fruit. E745.5
- Lifen token: fruit decays on tree. E761.3.2
- Life token: fruit falls from tree. E761.3.3
- Marvelous tree grown from otherworld fruit. F162.3.0.1
- Tree in otherworld in perpetual fruit. F162.3.3
- Jinns entitled to share in fruits of the earth. F499.3.2
- Giant comes to bake too soon; spills dough. Giant who has common oven with another thinks he hears companion in next valley scraping the kneading trough. He bakes his dough but finds he is too early and that he has only heard himself scratching. He spills the dough: hence fruitful soil. (Cf. F451.7.2, F455.3.5.) F531.3.7
- Girl lives in fruit and comes out only to be bathed by her twenty sisters. F562.4
- Strong hero engendered by eating of fruit. F611.1.8
- Fruitful island. F733
- Extraordinary trees, plants, fruit, etc. F810
- Tree with silver trunk, gold branches, emerald leaves, pearls for fruits. F811.1.7
- Tree with extraordinary fruit. F811.7
- Tree bearing all fruits. F811.7.1