F28A2 — Penises grow in the field.

The owner of the field, either intentionally or having misheard the question, replies that he grows penises. After that, penises grow in the field instead of crops.

Berezkin category: Gender and sex

This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part of group 5, Origin of human beings, ethnic groups, etiology of human anatomy, strange body configuration, ways of behavior, marriages before the establishment of the present norms.

F28.  There is a separate penis character with whom the first women, Amazons, or simply some woman copulate.
F28a.  A penis grows out of the ground or out of the water in a lake. Women summon it as needed.
F28a1.  The living penis is a dangerous creature that attacks people.
F28a2.  The owner of the field, either intentionally or having misheard the question, replies that he grows penises. After that, penises grow in the field instead of crops.
F28a3.  A girl (woman) possesses an object that is pleasant (useful). Once in the hands of others, it becomes harmful (dangerous).
F28a4.  The fruits or stems of plants are penises.
F28A5.  The penis and vulva (in the singular or plural) are separate beings and characters.
F28b.  A woman uses a penis made of wax, wood, fruit or root. Usually her husband or male relative smears it with pepper, and the woman is maimed or killed.
F28c.  A woman masturbates with the penis of a large animal that one of the men killed while hunting.
F28d.  By masturbating with an artificial penis, a woman conceives children.

This motif has been recorded in 5 traditions: Soqotri, Bhuiya (now Aryans, originally Munda; Rahman 1955: 203), Baiga, Bhaina, Bhumia (subgroup of Baiga, incl Bharia, formerly Munda, now speak Indo-Aryan languages of neighboring groups), Gagauz, Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal), Russian Federation