μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Why men may eat hares.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Acquisition of culture. · Acquisition of food supply for human race. · view the constellation · filed as A1422.1

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Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
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Filed under Assignment of edible animals. Certain animals may be eaten by man.

1 finer motif beneath it
Why Santals eat entrails of hare
Filed beside it
Animals sources of food because they were once unfaithful, disobedient wives of a visitor from god-country What animals are to be eaten by man Why Birhors eat flesh of monkeys and baboons Why the wild boar is hunted by man for food: once a faithless wife killed by her husband

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