Motif
carried burden becomes bodily covering
carried_burden_becomes_bodily_covering
A motif of the Shapeshifter and Transformation family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
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West African Folk-Tales XVIII. WHY THE MOON AND THE STARS RECEIVE THEIR LIGHT FROM THE SUN / II. MISCELLANEOUS TALES / XIX. OHIA AND THE THIEVING DEER / XX. HOW THE TORTOISE GOT ITS SHELL; lines 1829-1893 confidence: medium
Klo fills his pot with wine, drinks the surplus, places palm-trees on his back, and is slowed by sleepiness, fatigue, the load, and heavy rain.
Klo dies beneath a load, and the pot and dust associated with that burden form a hard cover on his back that becomes linked to his later shell.
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