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A2003. Origin of insects: released from sack. God places them in a sack and gives it to hare to carry to stream. He must not look in the sack. When he does so the insects escape. The hare laughs and this is the cause of his split lip. — Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI 93 No. 104; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3131, Legends Nos. 232—244.

A2342.1. Why hare's lip is split. C322. Tabu: looking into bag.

A2004. Insects from devil's post-hole. Devil is given enough land to dig a post-hole. From this come all kinds of insects. To stop them a burning log is put in the hole. Insects therefore hate smoke. Dh I 173 — Finnish: Aarne FFC VIII 21 No. 120, XXXIII 55 No. 120.

A2005. Origin of insects: God throws sand on lazy shepherds. (Cf. A1716.1). — Esthonian: Aarne FFC XXV 150 No. 70.

A2006. Origin of insects: monstrous births from brother-sister incest. India: Thompson-Balys.

A2010. Creation of hymcnoptera.

A2011. Creation of ant. *Fb "myre" (cf. A2001); India: Thompson-Balys.

A2011.1. Creation of ant by devil. *Fb "myre". India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 23 (cf. A2001).

A2011.2. Creation of ant: avaricious man transformed. (Cf. A1715, A1730.) — Dh IV 272f. — Wienert FFC LVI 79 (ET 450), 134 (ST 395); Halm Aesop 294.

Q272. Avarice punished.

A2012. Creation of bee. Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys.

A2012.0.1. Creation of honey-bees: transformed man. India: Thompson-Balys.

A1710. Creation of animals through transformation. D180. Transformation: man to insect.

A2012.1. Creation of bee to provide wax for candles in church. (Cf. B259.4.) — *Dh II 129ff.

V133. Holy candles.

A2012.2. First bees in Ireland. Irish myth: Cross.

A2012.3. God sends stinging bees to punish men. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 187.

A2013. Creation of hornet. India: Thompson-Balys.

A2020. Creation of coleoptera.

A2021. Creation of beetle. Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 39 No. 63.

A2021.1. Beetle's special sacredness. India: Thompson-Balys.

A2030. Creation of diptera.

A2031. Creation of fly. India: Thompson-Balys.

B259.5. Fly, wren, fox live with cleric.

A2031.1. Creation of fly: punishment for laziness. (Cf. A1730.) — Dh II 111ff.

Q321. Laziness punished.

A2031.2. Flies on the ark. Noah tries to keep them out. Devil says that either the flies go in or he does. Noah chooses the lesser of two evils. Later the devil slips in nevertheless. Dh I 268.