Motif
animal helpers solve impossible tasks
animal_helpers_solve_impossible_tasks
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.
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filipino
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Philippine Folk Tales Philippine Folk Tales / PREFACE / CONTENTS / TINGUIAN; lines 930-1067 confidence: high
Gawigawen’s town is enclosed by a bank reaching almost to the sky; the chief of the spiders spins a thread from the top, and Aponitolau climbs it into town.
The spider provides a thread for climbing an otherwise inaccessible bank, and ants and flies consume the whole carabao that Aponitolau cannot eat.
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