Animals with human emotions — Mythoi

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Animals with human emotions.

Animals. · Fanciful traits of animals. · Other fanciful traits of animals. · view the constellation · filed as B773

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Depth CommentaryPrimitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Chapter V
Depth CommentaryThemis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion, CHAPTER V.

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Filed under Other fanciful traits of animals.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Animal feels agitation at sight of native land Animal (lion) pines away with grief upon his friend's grave Lion (wolf) protects the saint's body

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Wild animal miraculously tamed Shipwrecked man repulsed by animals. As he floats to shore animals push him back into water Stork is man while hibernating in Egypt Venomous animals Breath of bird withers Animal "drinks apart" mixed liquids. Separates the parts while drinking Sheep sleeps if anyone ties shoe to its ear Swine maddened by smell of oak forest Animal lives in person's stomach Animal wards off spirits Monkeys always copy men Birds mock ascetic's devotions Bats keep fireflies to light their houses Elephants have power of bringing rain Why certain animals are thought of as good or bad