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- Tree hanging from sky. A tree hangs upside down in the sky. By its branches men pass back and forth to the upper world. A652.2
- Goddess in anger breaks herself into five parts: hence, five branches of a river. A934.11.3
- Tabu: cutting branches of tree. C513.1
- Tree with silver branches. (Cf. D950, F811.1.2.) D1461.0.2
- Magic song causes tree to rise to sky. Has moon and Great Bear in its branches. (Cf. D1275.) D1576.1
- Banana tree tells who cut its branches. (Cf. D950.) D1612.1.2
- Tree with all sorts of cakes hanging from its branches springs from one cake. D2106.3
- Tree of Life. (Cf. D950.) Resuscitation by touching its branches. E90
- Hunting woman beaten with sticks of rowan-tree and ankles of corpse tied with branches of same tree. E442.1
- Twining branches grow from graves of lovers. (Cf. E419.6.) E631.0.1
- Tree with silver trunk, gold branches, emerald leaves, pearls for fruits. F811.1.7
- Tree with musical branches. F811.6
- Tree's branches turn upward when idolators rest beneath it. F979.20
- Crossing a river with help of a fig tree whose branches touch the opposite bank. F1071.1
- Giant ogre tricked into running round a tree the branches of which catch the strokes of his iron bar, until he falls down dead. G519.5
- Branches broken from tree to prove journey. H84.1
- Man uses umbrella under trees. (To protect self from falling branches and bird droppings.) H591.2
- Roots and branches of World-tree explained symbolically. H619.3
- Riddle: tree with twelve branches, each with thirty leaves, black and white. Year, month, days and nights. H721.1
- Riddle: palace consisting of 8760 stones; twelve trees, thirty branches, each with black and white cluster of grapes. Year, months, days, hours. H721.4
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