Theft of fire by animals.
Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Acquisition of culture. · Acquisition of livable environment. · view the constellation · filed as A1415.2
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 7references
The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.
- LithuanianBalys Index No. 3020, Balys Legends Nos. 27f.
- Eng.Baughman
- North CarolinaBrown Collection I 632. Massim of British New Guinea: Dixon 115
- Africa (Ekoi)Talbot 370, (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale 345, (Fang): Nassau No. 3
- N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 289 n. 63 (practically every reference)
- S. Am. Indian (Guarani)Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 93, (Mataco, Toba): Métraux ibid. (1) 367, (Eastern Brazil): Lowie ibid. (1) 434, (Chiriguano): Métraux ibid. (3) 484, RMLP XXXIII 172, (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 107–109.
- general *Dh III 92ff.
Within the index
Filed under Theft of fire. Mankind is without fire. A culture hero steals it from the owner.
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