Why men no longer know time of death. Custom changed when men began to repair fences with stalks when they knew they were to die the next day

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Why men no longer know time of death. Custom changed when men began to repair fences with stalks when they knew they were to die the next day.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Origin of customs. · Origin of other customs. · view the constellation · filed as A1593

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

NorseThe First Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus, Book 1

Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

Irish mythCross
LithuanianBalys Index No. 3062, Legends Nos. 115–120. – Esthonian: Aarne FFC XXV 142 No. 19
LivonianLoorits FFC LXVI 84 No. 37.
general *Babler Sudetendeutsche Zs. f. Vksk. VII (1934) 171ff.

Within the index

Filed under Origin of other customs.

Filed beside it

Origin of burial Origin of cremation Origin of physicians Origin of tattooing Origin of army Origin of custom of wearing a beard Origin of customs of hospitality Origin of additional customs

Carried in tale types

The Origin of Death · ATU 934H1 recorded variant

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