Creation of bee to provide wax for candles in church. (Cf. B259.4.)

Motif

Creation of bee to provide wax for candles in church. (Cf. B259.4.)

Mythological motifs. · Creation of animal life. · Creation of insects. · Creation of hymenoptera. · view the constellation · filed as A2012.1

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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.

general *Dh II 129ff.

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Filed under Creation of bee.

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Creation of honey-bees: transformed man First bees in Ireland God sends stinging bees to punish men

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Bees build church of wax to contain consecrated host. (Cf. A2012.1.)

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