The constellation
A2238 Animal characteristics: punishment for greed
A constellation is one motif’s neighborhood in the record — the story-shapes filed around it, the tale types that carry it, and the texts where it is witnessed, every line a receipted link. Click a motif to travel. Click a text to read it. The entry · wander
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- Rabbit (frog) eats seed-grain from fields: nose closed during sowing season. (Cf. A2335.2.4.) · A2238.1 entry
- Ring-dove eats man's grain: man may kill him. Similarly francolin and guinea fowl · A2238.2 entry
- Fish eat other fish: guilty must swim deep. (Cf. A2444.1.) · A2238.3 entry
- Diver eats nests of small birds: must not nest away from water. (Cf. A2431.3.2.) · A2238.4 entry