Motif
Guarded remains broken, disabling a powerful predator
guarded_remains_broken_disabling_a_powerful_predator
A motif of the Conditional Invulnerability and Hidden Weakness family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
khoisan south african
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South-African Folk-Tales LION AND BABOON / FOOTNOTES: / THE ZEBRA STALLION / WHEN LION COULD FLY; lines 2436-2461 confidence: medium
Lion made a pair of White Crows watch the bones at the kraal while he hunted; Great Frog came, broke the bones, asked why men and animals could no longer live, and said Lion could find him at a nearby pool.
Lion orders the bones watched; Great Frog breaks them; Lion then discovers that he cannot fly.
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