Motif
Hunter confronted and redirected by animals
hunter_confronted_and_redirected_by_animals
A motif of the Divine Intervention and Guidance family, within the sub-family Animal and Nature Helpers. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
islamicate folklore
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The Arabian Nights Entertainments The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 4587-4685 confidence: high
The narrator and master bury the killed elephant in a trench so tusks can later be obtained; for two months the narrator hunts this way and kills an elephant each day.
After the narrator repeatedly kills elephants, the herd surrounds him and the largest elephant carries him to a place where tusks can be obtained without killing.
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