{"collection":"African","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/afr/jas/jas034n.htm","path":"afr/jas/jas034n.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/afr/jas/jas034n.htm","text":"The very popular story of Butterfly's revenge is a somewhat obscured version of an old theme--the Jataka story of The Quail's Friends, Francis and Thomas, 247-250, Compare Steel-Temple, Wide Awake Stories, 184; Gerber, Great Russian Animal Tales, Pub. Mod. Lang. Asso. of Am. 6: No. 2:19-20; Grimm 58, The Dog and the Sparrow, discussed in Bolte u. Pol\u00edvka 1:515-519.\nThough common to-day, the story seems to be of comparatively late introduction. Old Edwards, over eighty, heard it when he was \"ripe.\" Compare Tremearne, 231.\n{p. 255}","title":"Note 34. But-but and Anansi.","type":"page"}