Food of tortoise

Motif

Food of tortoise.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits. · Animal characteristics: dwelling and food. · view the constellation · filed as A2435.6.1

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

YorubaThe Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa, Chapter 14
IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 5, Section CIX
Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic)The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation), Book 4, Canto 17
IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 1, Section XXX

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.

JewishNeuman
Ila (Rhodesia)Smith and Dale 370 No. 21.

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Filed under Food of fish, reptiles, etc.

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