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Motifs — first 20 of 26
- 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