Tree cut down with axe for which it has furnished a handle

Motif

Tree cut down with axe for which it has furnished a handle.

The nature of life. · The nature of life – miscellaneous motifs. · Misfortune with oneself to blame the hardest. · view the constellation · filed as U162

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Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter IX IX. The Worship of Trees
Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 12, Section XXXII
Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 8, Section 21
Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 8, Section 49
Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 8, Section 89

Filed across the traditions

Jewish *Neuman
India Thompson-Balys.
general Wienert FFC LXI *74 (ET 388), 117 (ST 274)
general Halm Aesop No. 123

Within the index

Filed under Misfortune with oneself to blame the hardest.

Filed beside it

Eagle killed with arrow made with his own feather

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