Motif
Animal sign interrupts quest and reveals danger
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A motif of the Prophecy and Systematic Divination family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
indigenous australian
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Australian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies CONTENTS / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION / ANDREW LANG.; lines 561-655 confidence: medium
Byamee marks a bee with a white feather to follow it for honey and tells his wives Birrahgnooloo and Cunnunbeillee to gather frogs and yams and meet him at Coorigel Spring.
Byamee follows a marked bee to find honey, but when it stops and refuses to continue, he infers that something has happened and returns to Coorigel Spring.
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