Motif
origin or acquisition of fire
origin_or_acquisition_of_fire
A motif of the Culture Hero and Founder family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
andamanese
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The Andaman Islanders: A Study in Social Anthropology CHAPTER III / RELIGIOUS AND MAGICAL BELIEFS / CHAPTER IV / MYTHS AND LEGENDS; lines 7098-7203 confidence: high
Prawn first produced or obtained fire when dry yam leaves caught fire, made a fire and slept; Kingfisher stole fire and cooked fish; Dove stole fire from Kingfisher, with an implied gift of fire to the ancestors of the Andamanese.
The free translation explicitly describes Prawn as first producing or obtaining fire and the passage identifies the story as a legend of the origin of fire.
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