F28a4. Penises on plants. .16.17.21.23.27.28.

The fruits or stems of plants are penises.

French (north, 13th century), Socotra, Tibetans (Sichuan), Baiga, Kuruba, Gagauz, Russians {conditionally – south}.

Western Europe. The French (marginalia in the margins of the Romance of the Rose, Paris, 13th century) [two Clarisse nuns picking phalluses growing on a tree]: Zotov et al. 2021: 41.

Western Asia. Socotra [the owner of a palm grove meets with the “angel” Diheko; he asks what he grows, the owner replies that he grows mangroves (i.e., something useless); D. turns the palms into mangroves; D. comes again and advises making wooden phalluses from the branches of the mangroves and selling them to rich women; one girl buys such a phallus for a lot of money; to make it work, one must say bismillah , and to stop it – 'ud billa; the girl satisfies herself for several days; then the phallus hears other people say bismillah on various occasions ; it attacks members of the girl’s family (both men and women), then passers-by, and finally the imam]: Naumkin, Kogan 2013, no. 32: 190-191.

Tibet – North-East of India. Eastern Tibetans (Sichuan) [the cunning Aku-Tembe asked a man who was cultivating a field what he was sowing; he replied that it was grain (zhin); – Zhi? (penis). The plowman did not hear and replied that it was; AT: let this good grow as abundantly and as large as possible; penises grew in the field]: Potanin 1910, No. 17.7: 411-412 (reprinted in Komissarov 1997: ).

South Asia. Baiga [when asked by a Brahmin about cucumbers, the owner of a garden replied that he grew penises; found a penis named Chanduwa in the garden, sold it to a woman in the market; she put it under the roof, called for it whenever needed; her little daughter spied on it, called, it jumped into her vagina, she began to scream, her mother came running, sent the penis back; a man was leading an ox named Chanduva, called it, the penis jumped into his backside; when the woman got married, the husband found the penis and burned it]: Elwin 1949, no. 34: 392-393; Kuruba [a washerwoman was constantly experiencing desire, men could not satisfy her; seeing donkeys copulating, she asked a cobbler to make for her a leather penis patterned after a donkey's; she ordered a chest for it; a shoemaker made it so that if you said "Pfui" the penis would stick into a woman's vagina or a man's bottom and start working; and when the woman cried out, "Let go!" the penis would return to its chest; one day some thieves broke into her home; opening the chest and seeing the penis, the first thief said "Pfui" and the penis would jump into his bottom; then the same with another thief; the king called the thieves to account for stealing the woman's property; seeing the penis, he also said "Pfui"; then the rani and all the courtiers said the same; the woman was sent for, she commanded the penis "Let go!"; the king gave her in marriage and gave the couple a quarter of his lands and property]: Kapp 1982: 266-270.

The Balkans. Gagauz [God walked the earth; asked a farmer what he was sowing; heard in response: "Corn"; another farmer's plow broke; God asked him too: "What are you sowing, friend?"; he answered: "... I sow"; God: "God willing, it will grow"; after a while, the one who sowed corn grew corn, and in the other's field "... they stand like stakes"; this man collected "...", carried it to the city to sell and shouted: "... buy, ..!"; a widow lady bought one; asked how it worked; the seller: "When you lie down, say: "fi! fyu!", and when enough, - "òга goga" (a cry with which to drive oxen); the lady did this once and ordered the coachman: "Hitch up the cart, Ivan, we'll go to the fair"; They had driven half the way when she ordered: “Unharness one horse, mount it and ride home. There is a cage there, and in the cage a chest. Take it and bring it back, but don’t open it on the way, because a bird will fly out of it”; I. took the chest, but while riding through the forest, he opened it and saw “a big …, which entered his rear end”; I. tied it to a tree, dragged it, but couldn’t pull it out; oxen came to scratch themselves on the tree; I. shouted at them: “òга goòga”; then “…” came out of his rear end; I. put it on a stone, beat it and took it to the lady; she saw that “…” was bent and crumpled; she asked if I. had opened the chest; he said that he had not opened it; they rode on]: Moshkov 1904, No. 184: 260-261.

Central Europe. Russians (location unknown, 1857-1862) [two peasants plowed the land and went to sow rye; an old man passing by asked one of them what he was sowing; the peasant replied that he was sowing rye; the old man asked the second one; he said: "What do you need to know? I am sowing dicks!"; old man: "Well, may your dicks grow!"; in the spring, the first peasant grew thick rye, but the second one only grew penises; when harvest time came, the second peasant came with knives, cut off the penises in pairs and wrapped them in paper; he took everything he had collected to sell in town; the lady heard what he was selling; she sent a girl to him; she bought a pair of penises for a hundred rubles and brought them to the lady; the lady sent her to the seller to find out how to command the penises; The peasant took another hundred rubles and explained: "If the lady wants it, just let her say: "No-no!"" The lady said "no-no!" The penises began to enter her; The lady decided to stop them, but was unable to pull them out; She sent the girl to the seller; He took another hundred rubles and said: "Just let her say: "Whoa!" - and they will leave him alone"; The girl ran home and shouted: "Whoa!" The lady hid the penises; Having left for a visit to another village, she forgot them at home; The owners sent a footman to bring a "secret thing" without which the guest would not be able to fall asleep; The footman took a paper bundle from the girl and took it to the lady; Riding up the mountain, he began to urge the horse: "No-no"; The penises jumped out and entered his ass; The footman did not know what to do the horse began to quickly descend the mountain; the footman shouted: "Whoa!"; the penises jumped out of his rear end; he picked them up, wrapped them in paper, and brought them to the lady; (variant: the lady orders the footman to bring her secret in a box and forbids him to look inside; the footman could not resist looking on the way; seeing the contents, he said, shaking his head: "Well, well, well!"; both penises entered his rear end and tormented him for a long time; a peasant riding towards him shouted at his horse: "Whoa!"; the penises jumped out of the footman)]: Afanasyev 1997, No. 29: 72-77.