the bushfowl (Tale 35)

Role: bird · First appears: Tale 35 · How Mushrooms First Grew

Life events

• The bushfowl scratched up and ate the brothers’ newly planted seeds.(Tale 35 · How Mushrooms First Grew)
  • “Unfortunately, that very day a bushfowl came along. Being hungry, it scratched up all the newly planted seeds and ate them.”
• The brothers trapped the bushfowl and told it their debts would be transferred to it.(Tale 35 · How Mushrooms First Grew)
  • With: the two brothers (Tale 35)
  • “That evening the bushfowl was caught in it. The two brothers, when they came and found the bird, told it that now all their debts would be transferred to it because it had robbed them of the means of paying the debts themselves.”

Tale 35 · How Mushrooms First Grew

• enemies with the two brothers (Tale 35) “The two brothers, when they came and found the bird, told it that now all their debts would be transferred to it because it had robbed them of the means of paying the debts themselves.”

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Extracted from the original text of West African Folk-Tales. Made with Rho MD.