Man in the moon is an old woman busy with her spindle

Motif

Man in the moon is an old woman busy with her spindle.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The moon. · Nature and condition of the moon. · view the constellation · filed as A751.8.1

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Woman in the moon.

Filed beside it

Man in moon is a woman threshing corn with a dog by her side Goddess in moon with calabash at her side Woman in moon's oven seen on clear nights Girl with tree carried to moon and is seen there Goddess in moon beating tapa beneath tree

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