Invention of gai bulga

Motif

Invention of gai bulga.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Acquisition of culture. · Acquisition of crafts. · view the constellation · filed as A1459.1.4

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Acquisition of weapons.

Filed beside it

Origin of bows and arrows Introduction of broad-headed spears into Leinster Origin of sling-stones Origin of horse-whips

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Gae bulga. Barbed lance which cannot be withdrawn. (Cf. A1459.1.4.)

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