Motif
animal-form helpers performing agricultural labor
animal_form_helpers_performing_agricultural_labor
A motif of the Divine Intervention and Guidance family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
filipino
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Philippine Folk Tales Philippine Folk Tales / PREFACE / CONTENTS / TINGUIAN; lines 1595-1731 confidence: high
Ligi goes to his rice field, hears tikgi birds circling above and offering to cut his rice, doubts birds can do it, but tells them to return when the grain is ripe.
The tikgi birds offer to cut Ligi's rice, magically ripen it, direct tools to work by themselves, cut the crop, and fill his granary.
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