Accidental death from flying splinter of bone. Bone being gnawed by animal lets splinter fly and kills young animals

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Accidental death from flying splinter of bone. Bone being gnawed by animal lets splinter fly and kills young animals.

Chance and fate. · Unlucky accidents. · Accidental killing or death. · view the constellation · filed as N335.4

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

general Africa (Larusa): Fokken "Erzählungen und Märchen der Larusa" ZsKS VII 82ff. No. 1, (Wachaga): Gutmann 87ff. No. 44, (Masai): Fuchs Sagen, Mythen und Sitten der Masai (Jena, 1910) 50ff., (Uganda): Rowling The Tales of Sir Apolo: Uganda Folklore and Proverbs (London, n.d.) 47ff., (Congo): Stanley My Dark Companions and their Strange Stories (New York, 1906) 161ff., Casati Ten Years in Equatoria and the Return with Emin Pasha (New York, 1891) II 45f.

Within the index

Filed under Unexpected death at hands of an animal.

Filed beside it

Bird hunter killed by adder just as he is shooting bird Blood bath causes woman to be carried off by bird. A pregnant woman demands a bath of blood: husband substitutes a bath of red dye. A Garuda bird attracted by the dye carries her off Death by rebounding bow. Ants gnaw a bowstring, so that the bow rebounds and cuts off head of man who is leaning on it Hound strikes unique vulnerable spot Series of accidental animal killings Tortoise lands on elephant's back so that elephant's back is broken

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