Spider hands box to ant and refuses to take it back: hence ants carry huge loads

Motif

Spider hands box to ant and refuses to take it back: hence ants carry huge loads.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics: obtaining another's qualities. · view the constellation · filed as A2243.1

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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.

Gold CoastBarker and Sinclair 66 No. 9.

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Filed under Animal characteristics: lending and refusing to receive back.

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