Origin of mosquitoes

Motif

Origin of mosquitoes.

Mythological motifs. · Creation of animal life. · Creation of insects. · Creation of diptera. · view the constellation · filed as A2034

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Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys
JapaneseIkeda
Eskimo (Ungava)Turner RBAE XI 264
S. Am. Indian (Tucuna)Nimuendajú BBAE CXLIII (3) 294
general Hatt Asiatic Influences 89f.
general N. Am. Indian (Kaska): Teit JAFL XXX 445.

Within the index

Filed under Creation of diptera.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Deity's wife creates mosquitoes to drive her husband out of jungle Mosquitoes from bones of slain demon flung into the air. (Cf. A2001.)Mosquitoes from ashes of bad woman. (Cf. A2001.)

Filed beside it

Creation of fly Creation of flea Creation of gnat

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