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Motifs — first 20 of 39
- Man made from vegetable substance. A1250
- Acquisition of vegetables and cereals. A1423
- Origin of vegetables. A2686
- Sundry characteristics of grains and vegetables. A2793
- Sundry characteristics of vegetables. A2794
- Vegetable lamb. Generated from ground. Umbilical cord is in the ground and the lambs will die if it is forcibly severed. They are frightened into severing it themselves and then live. Vertebrae of the neck planted to produce new ones. B95
- Vegetable lamb born from melons (as from eggs). B95.1
- [First Edition: B711. Vegetable lamb. Lamb of vegetable origin.] B711[1st ed.]
- Tabu: eating certain vegetable. C224
- One must eat "death vegetable" whenever one sees it. Otherwise god will be angry. C662
- Person returns to original vegetable form when tabu is broken. C963.3
- Transformation: man to vegetable form. D210
- Transformation: vegetable form to person. D431
- Transformation: vegetable form to animal. D441
- Transformation of vegetable form. D451
- Transformation: vegetable to other object. D451.9
- Transformation by eating vegetable. (Cf. D983.) D551.2
- Magic fruits and vegetables. D980
- Magic vegetable. D983
- Magic vegetable (as food). (Cf. D983.) D1034
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