id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
ebl-1624	Forth, Gregory	Bad Mothers and Strange Offspring: Images of Scrubfowl and Sea Turtles in Eastern Indonesia	2020	6	.pdf	application/pdf	4547	195	57	Yet as this similarity should suggest, a more general explanation for creatures other than turtles hatching from turtle eggs and creatures other than scrubfowl chicks hatching from scrubfowl eggs lies in what Flores Islanders perceive as the poor parenting skills of both animals. Bound up with their connection with cockatoos and parrots, and more specifically the belief that sea turtle eggs can give rise both to these birds and to other similarly pestilential creatures, the rites in question, mostly of a magical nature, are performed to lend protection to ripening crops.	cache/ebl-1624.pdf	txt/ebl-1624.txt