God sends stinging bees to punish men

Motif

God sends stinging bees to punish men.

Mythological motifs. · Creation of animal life. · Creation of insects. · Creation of hymenoptera. · view the constellation · filed as A2012.3

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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.

ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 187.

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Filed under Creation of bee.

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Creation of honey-bees: transformed man Creation of bee to provide wax for candles in church. (Cf. B259.4.)First bees in Ireland

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