Respect for the mantis

Respect for the mantis

Lucy Lloyd !kun notebooks

Tamme (XII)

The people in Tamme's country respect the mantis (||gan-a) and do not eat it. A person who eats the mantis dies.

1) This story is found in Book XI & XII-9

story

22 March 1880

Custom and daily life

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