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Motifs
- Plantain disobeys mother: hence bears but one stalk. (Cf. A2771.2.) A2722.1
- Why plantain bears but one stalk. (Cf. A2722.1.) A2771.2
- Transformation: man to plantain stalk. D213.6
- Magic plantain. D965.11
- Magic plantain causes four tails to grow. (Cf. D965.11.) D1375.4.1.1
- Task: bringing a plantain leaf from the garden without tearing it. H1041
- Green plantains sold as matured plants. K147.1
- Man sharpening his dao is bitten by a prawn. He cuts down a big bamboo; a fruit falls from bamboo and strikes a bird on the nape of the neck; the bird scratches up an ant's nest with his feet; the ant bites a wild boar in the eye; and the boar bears down upon a plantain tree where a bat dwells under a leaf; the bat seeks refuge in the ear of an elephant, and the elephant kicks down the house on an old woman. She rushes out and falls into a well. Z49.6.3