Bees work on Sabbath: may not get honey from red clover. (Cf. A2435.5.1.)

Motif

Bees work on Sabbath: may not get honey from red clover. (Cf. A2435.5.1.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics as punishment. · view the constellation · filed as A2231.3.2

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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 III 306ff. – North Carolina: Brown Collection I 634.

Within the index

Filed under Animal characteristics: punishment for working on holy day.

Filed beside it

Cuckoo builds nest on Annunciation Day: has no nest. (Cf. A2431.2.1.)

Travels with

Why bees may not get honey from red clover. (Cf. A2231.3.2.)

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