Motif
Origin of enmity between animal groups
origin_of_enmity_between_animal_groups
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.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
buddhist
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Jataka tales GRANNY'S BLACKIE / THE CRAB AND THE CRANE / XVIII / WHY THE OWL IS NOT KING OF THE BIRDS; lines 1626-1660 confidence: high
The narrator asks why crows torment sleeping owls by day and why owls try to kill sleeping crows by night, then says an old tale will explain it.
The passage explicitly explains present hostility between crows and owls by narrating an earlier quarrel during the election of a bird king.
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