Origin of yeast: wasp stole it from the old woman underneath the earth

Motif

Origin of yeast: wasp stole it from the old woman underneath the earth.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Acquisition of culture. · Acquisition of food supply for human race. · view the constellation · filed as A1429.2

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

India*Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Acquisition of food supply – miscellaneous.

Filed beside it

Discovery of oil (edible)Acquisition of water. (Cf. A1111.)Acquisition of salt

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