L39C — Grown from a seed.

A boy (less often a girl) climbs a fruit tree that has just grown (usually from a discarded seed). A cannibal tries to force the boy (girl) to come down to the ground.

Berezkin category: Adventures: Monsters and evil spirits

This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part of group 10, Adventures.

L39.  By force or deception, the character forces another to climb down from the tree in order to harm him.
L39a.  A supernatural character emerges from the underworld and attacks a man who has climbed a tree.
L39b.  The tree grows from a flatbread (pie, etc.) and usually bears flatbreads instead of fruit.
L39c.  A boy (less often a girl) climbs a fruit tree that has just grown (usually from a discarded seed). A cannibal tries to force the boy (girl) to come down to the ground.
L39d.  A boy climbs a tree to pick fruit. A demonic character asks him to share, but not to throw the fruit on the ground, but to pass it from hand to hand. He grabs the boy and carries him away.

This motif has been recorded in 8 traditions: Algeria Arabs, Kirati (Kiranti): Rai (incl Thulung), Limbu, Newar, Sardinia, Corsica, Sardinians, Corsicans, France, Uzbek, Yagnobi, Tajik, Iranian literary tradition (including Avesta, Pahlevi scripts, Sah-nameh, Marzban-nameh); Zoroastrians of Iran, Indian Parsees, Zoroastrianism