26 motifs match “growing”  ·  back to the chapters

• Stars are trees growing on the clouds. A769.1
• Why stones no longer grow. Devil sows stones; God sends cold to prevent their growing. A975.1
• Origin of water wheel and rice growing. A1441.3
• Origin of onion-growing. A1441.5
• Stretching lily plant. Miraculously quick growing. D482.2
• Magic speaking reed (tree) betrays secret. King has whispered secret to hole in the ground. Reed growing from this hole tells the secret. D1316.5
• Saint's bell starts crops growing. (Cf. D1213.) D1563.1.4
• Self-growing and self-gathering corn. (Cf. D965.8.) D1601.2
• Reincarnation in plant (tree) growing from grave. (Cf. E632, D1610.2.) E631
• Reincarnation as musical instrument. The Singing Bone. A musical instrument made from the bones of a murdered person, or from a tree growing from the grave, speaks and tells of the crime. E632
• Escape from lower world on miraculously growing tree. F101.5
• Armless people have legs growing from their shoulders. Use toes in place of fingers. F516.1.1
• Man with grass growing from his joints. F529.3
• Giant lies underground with trees growing all over his body. When his mouth is opened man falls into it and is swallowed. F531.2.6
• Tongue with hair growing from it. F544.2.3
• Growing mountain. F755.4
• Growing rocks. F802
• Growing and ungrowing grass. Produces one pod daily till the fifteenth of the month; thereafter one pod shrinks each day. (Cf. F811.12.) F817.1
• Thorn growing in wound becomes tree. F971.3
• Task: growing oil seed on stony ground. H1049.2
• Task: planting and growing crop overnight. H1103.2.2
• Quest for thread from lotus stalks growing on Vishnu's navel. H1289.4.1
• Taking the seed out at night. Numskull plants seed in daytime and takes it out at night. "Man must guard his treasures" (or "Growing in the daytime is enough"). J2224
• Buffalo's fate in bamboo growing from head. N119.2
• Lie about the fast-growing plants. X1402
• Lie: pancakes growing on lime-tree. X1472.1