Motif
Fire restrained by water
fire_restrained_by_water
A motif of the Duality and Cosmic Opposition family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
afro caribbean
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Jamaica Anansi Stories XVII. / PHILOSOPHY. / XVIII. / RIDDLES.; lines 9043-9323 confidence: medium
Riddles 39-44 identify fire kept by water, tree, lice on the head, three-legged cooking-pot, gungo peas with collective crying variants, and woodpeckers with red caps and a Guinea-people variant.
One riddle says the only coop that can keep the rooster is water, with the answer identifying the rooster as fire.
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