Why bees die after they sting. (Cf. A2232.2.)
Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Origin of animal characteristics: face. · view the constellation · filed as A2346.1
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references
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.
- BretonSébillot Incidents s.v. "abeilles"
- LithuanianBalys Index 3204, Legends Nos. 296–300.