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- Man made of clay with bones of stone, with blood of water and with vines for veins. A1260.1.5
- Druid divines whereabouts of missing person. (Cf. D1711.4.) D1816.5
- Magic heaviness. D2035
- Dwarfs live in ravines. F451.4.2.2
- Vines smile when a leaf is cut from them. F815.7.3
- King: What is your father doing? Youth: He is in the vineyard and is doing good and bad. (He prunes vines and sometimes cuts good and sometimes lets bad ones stay.) H583.2
- God blamed for letting pumpkin vines produce larger fruit than nut trees. J2215.6
- "Thank Fortune it wasn't a melon." Man contends that melons should not grow on slender vines but on tall trees. He is hit on the nose by a falling nut. Is thankful it wasn't a melon. J2571