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Motif-Index of Folk-Literature
A2774. Why trees remain fixed. India: Thompson-Balys.
A2774.1. Why ayikha-bush is firmly rooted. India: Thompson-Balys.
A2775. Why certain trees are dwarfed. (See A2721.2.1.)
A2775.0.1. Why plants no longer reach sky. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 134 No. 90.
A2776. Why certain plants are cursed.
A2776.1. Why birch is cursed. Flemish: DeMeyer FFC XXXVII 91 No. 132d.
A2776.2. Why weeping-willow is cursed. Flemish: DeMeyer XXXVII 91 No. 132d.
A2777. Why certain plants (trees) are blessed.
A2777.1. Why fig tree is chief priest of the trees. India: Thompson-Balys.
B252.2. Priest of snakes.
A2777.2. King of trees. India: Thompson-Balys.
A2778. Why certain tree is tall.
A2778.1. Why coconut tree is tall. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 98.
A2778.2. Why palm is tall. India: Thompson-Balys.
A2781. Origin of plant names. Jewish: Neuman.
A2782. Origin of combustible property of wood. Tonga: Gifford 23.
A2783. Medicinal properties of trees. Jewish: Neuman.
A2785. Origin of shape of particular tree.
A2785.1. Origin of shape of wiliwili tree. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 495.
A2788. Why certain tree is hardy.
A2711.6. How the plum tree came to be so hardy: blessed by Ram.
A2791. Sundry characteristics of trees.
A2791.1. Why trees do not talk. All ask to be spared when man begins cutting them. Esthonian: Aarne FFC XXV 151 No. 75; Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI 94 No. 107; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3215, Legends No. 302f.; India: Thompson-Balys.
A2791.2. Why lightning spares the nut-tree. Flemish: DeMeyer FFC XXXVII 91 No. 132e.
A2791.3. How banyan got its milk. India: Thompson-Balys.
A2791.4. Why no one can find flower of wild fig. India: Thompson-Balys.
A2791.5. Why tamarind fruit is sour. India: Thompson-Balys.
A2791.7. Why some trees have no fruit. India: Thompson-Balys.
A2791.8. Why sap comes from top of palm. India: Thompson-Balys.
A2791.9. Why fruit of sago palm looks like an eye. India: Thompson-Balys.
