brier-patch

"Bred an born in a brier-patch, Brer Fox, bred en bawn!"

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Da folks dey surround Brer Fox in a little triangle and dey say, "Throw dat uppity Rabbit in dat brier-patch like he deserve."

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So Brer Fox step into dat triangle to grab Brer Rabbit and he fling him right into dat brier-patch.

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And is Lady S. pulling some kind of brier-patch scenario here?

Week 36: In All Their Grandeur and Monstrosity Douglas Wolk 2007

And is Lady S. pulling some kind of brier-patch scenario here?

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"Bred en bawn in a brier-patch, Brer Fox -- bred en bawn in a brier-patch!" en wid dat he skip out des ez lively ez a cricket in de embers.

Reveries of a Schoolmaster Francis B. Pearson

Co'se Brer Fox wanter hurt Brer Rabbit bad ez he kin, so he cotch 'im by de behime legs en slung' im right in de middle er de brier-patch.

Reveries of a Schoolmaster Francis B. Pearson

"Hang me des ez high as you please, Brer Fox," sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, "but do fer de Lord's sake don't fling me in dat brier-patch," sezee.

Reveries of a Schoolmaster Francis B. Pearson

For additional bibliography of the brier-patch punishment, in many of the American Indian versions of which the turtle or tortoise is substituted for the rabbit, see Thompson, 446-447; JAFL 31: 229

Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

Probably the earliest literary version of the drowning-turtle motif (undoubtedly the prototype of the brier-patch punishment) is Buddhistic: Jataka, No. 543.

Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler