Story: Origin of Tobacco. Skinner also provides cross-references.
Characters: Manabus, Grandmother, old god-man (keeper of tobacco), grasshopper
Plot (this is the abstract provided by Skinner): (a) Manabus steals tobacco from the old god man who guards it for the powers. [he almost kills the old god man when he chases Manabus, but then he spared him] (b) He turns the guardian into a grasshopper [an "evil shape"], accounting for the fact that grasshoppers “spit tobacco.”
Plot (this is the abstract provided by Skinner): (a) Manabus steals tobacco from the old god man who guards it for the powers. [he almost kills the old god man when he chases Manabus, but then he spared him] (b) He turns the guardian into a grasshopper [an "evil shape"], accounting for the fact that grasshoppers “spit tobacco.”
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