Motif
Crow as offended defiler of social space
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A motif of the Trickster and Boundary Crosser family, within the sub-family Animal-Fable Households, Enmities, and Speaking Creatures. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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Aino Folk-Tales INTRODUCTION. / AINO FOLK-LORE. / I.--TALES ACCOUNTING FOR THE ORIGIN OF PHENOMENA. / II.--MORAL TALES.; lines 1299-1389 confidence: high
In 'The Angry Crow,' a black-robed visitor drinks rice-beer, dances, places hard dung in the alcove, is beaten by the house-master, and flies out as a large crow; the tale warns that crows are to be dreaded.
The crow defiles a house or feast with dung, and the alternate version explicitly links the act to exclusion from an invitation.
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