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- Magic song makes barren land fruitful. (Cf. D1275.) D1563.1.2
- Sign of the cross makes barren land fruitful. D1563.1.3
- 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
- Fruitful island. F733
- Father's counsel: find treasure within a foot of the ground. (Sons dig everywhere and thus loosen soil of vineyard, which becomes fruitful.) H588.7
- Fruitfulness of nature as proof of kingly right. H1574.2
- Fruitful tree chosen. J241
- Athena chooses olive tree because of fruitfulness. J241.1
- King in will foretells that daughters of his son shall be fruitful. M301.17.1
- Nature benign and fruitful during reign of good king. (Cf. Q67.) Q153
- Milk of hornless, single-colored cow drunk by man to make wife fruitful. T591.1.2