Motif
animal transport by birds with a grasped stick
animal_transport_by_birds_with_a_grasped_stick
A motif of the Trickster and Boundary Crosser family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
buddhist
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Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 SUPPLEMENTARY TABLES. / THE BIRTH STORIES. / INDEX 339 / INTRODUCTION.; lines 596-738 confidence: high
The future Buddha reconstructs the tortoise’s friendship with wild ducks, its grip on a stick while flying, its attempt to speak, its fall from the sky, and the verse saying the tortoise killed himself by his voice.
The tortoise is carried through the air by wild ducks while biting a stick; the narrator later compares variants in which eagles carry the tortoise.
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