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A2578. Why animal has long life. Jewish: Neuman.
A2578.1. Why daddy-long-legs has long life. India: Thompson-Balys.
A2578.2. Why eagle has long life. Jewish: Neuman.
A2581. Why tiger lacks some qualities of cats: cat, his teacher, omitted to teach him all he knew. India: Thompson-Balys.
A2582. Why certain animals are plentiful.
A2582.1. Why pigs are plentiful. New Guinea: Ker 13.
A2584. Why particular animals are not found in certain place.
A2584.1. Why certain district is free of mosquitoes. Korean: Zong in-Sob 58, No. 32.
A2584.2. Why ants no longer live on the back of the hare. Korean: Zong in-Sob 33 No. 16.
A2585. Why there is enmity between certain animals and man. Jewish: Neuman.
A2585.1. Origin of enmity between serpent and man. Jewish: Neuman.
A2600—A2699. Origin of trees and plants.
A2600—A2649. VARIOUS ORIGINS OF PLANTS
A2600. Origin of plants. Dh I 170f. — **Wünsche Die Pflanzenfabel in der Weltliteratur (Leipzig 1905). — Persian: Carnoy 281; Hawaiian: Dixon 38; Maori: Clark 15.
A2601. Origin of plants: creator sends down the insects, who plant them. India: Thompson-Balys.
A2602. Planting the earth. India: Thompson-Balys.
A2610. Creation of plants by transformation.
D210. Transformation: man to vegetable form.
A2611. Plants from body of slain person or animal. Dh I 79. — India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 23, 129; S. Am. Indian (Mataco): Métraux MAFLS XL 128, (Caingang): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (1) 473.
E631. Reincarnation in plant (tree) growing from grave.
A2611.0.1. Plants from grave of dead person or animal. India: Thompson-Balys; Mono-Alu: Wheeler 67; S. Am. Indian (Brazil): Oberg 109, (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 38, (Paressi): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 359f., (Cashinawa): Métraux ibid. 686.
A2611.0.2. Plants from foetus or body of stillborn child. India: Thompson-Balys.
A2611.0.3. Human placenta transformed into plant. India: Thompson-Balys.
A2611.0.4. Parts of body of god transformed into plants. India: Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 188.
A2611.0.4.1. Women transformed into flowers. Marquesas: Handy 135.
