μῦθοι Mythoi
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.

  • EnglandBaughman
  • Africa (Ekoi)Talbot 397.
Within the index

Filed under Animal "punished" by being placed in favorite environment.

1 finer motif beneath it
Birds caught in net fly away with it
Filed beside it
Drowning punishment for turtle (eel, crab). By expressing horror of drowning, he induces his captor to throw him into the water – his homeBriar-patch punishment for rabbit. By expressing horror of being thrown into the briar patch he induces his captor into doing so. He runs offBurying the mole as punishmentBurning the jackal. He expresses horror of that punishment. Sets fire to village from his burning tail. Why he has burnt tip on tailThieving insect put in closely woven basket asks to be put in a loosely woven one so he cannot see
Carried in tale types

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