Animal scorches self while putting out fire in land of fire, woe and darkness

Motif

Animal scorches self while putting out fire in land of fire, woe and darkness.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics: change in ancient animal. · view the constellation · filed as A2218.1.1

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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.

WalesBaughman.

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Filed under Raven caught in smoke-hole: hence is black. (Cf. A2411.2.1.5.)

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