Why bees eat their own children.
Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits. · Animal characteristics: dwelling and food. · view the constellation · filed as A2435.5.1.1
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 30
- Literary Crystallization Four Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee , The Tempest Act 1
- Mesoamerican (Maya / Nahua) Popol Vuh, or Book of the Holy Assembly (Guthrie translation, serialized, truncated) , Part 3, Chapter 10
- Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic) The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation) , Book 5, Canto 58
Filed across the traditions
- India Thompson-Balys.
Within the index
Filed under Why bees may not get honey from red clover. (Cf. A2231.3.2.)
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