Motif
contested game animal taken by force and recovered by deception
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A motif of the Trickster and Boundary Crosser family, within the sub-family Theft, Stolen Goods, and Pursuit. 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 750-866 confidence: medium
Piggiebillah questions the brothers, rejects their explanations, threatens to kill them, is shown the dead emu, and drags it to his own camp.
Piggiebillah forcibly takes the emu; the brothers enlist attackers and secretly remove the emu for themselves.
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