Motif
animal challenges human strength and is defeated by human weapons
animal_challenges_human_strength_and_is_defeated_by_human_weapons
A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
shan
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Shans at Home, With Two Chapters on Shan History and Literature THE STORY OF U-TAIN / THE STORY OF THE RAINBOW / THE STORY OF LITTLE THUMB / THE WOLF AND THE MAN; lines 11754-11782 confidence: high
A fox tells a wolf that man is the strongest animal; the wolf does not believe it, and the two go walking in the jungle and meet a man.
The wolf doubts that man is strongest, attacks a hunter, and is defeated by the hunter's gun and knife.
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