Ring-dove eats man's grain: man may kill him. Similarly francolin and guinea fowl

Motif

Ring-dove eats man's grain: man may kill him. Similarly francolin and guinea fowl.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics as punishment. · view the constellation · filed as A2238.2

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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.

Ila (Rhodesia)Smith and Dale 351 No. 6.

Within the index

Filed under Animal characteristics: punishment for greed.

Filed beside it

Rabbit (frog) eats seed-grain from fields: nose closed during sowing season. (Cf. A2335.2.4.)Fish eat other fish: guilty must swim deep. (Cf. A2444.1.)Diver eats nests of small birds: must not nest away from water. (Cf. A2431.3.2.)

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