How the Robin Stole Fire is an Australian Aboriginal folktale. An old man tells a group of birds the secret of fire: Mar, the cockatoo, keeps fire under his wing. The birds decide to invite Mar to a party in order to steal his fire. But Mar leaves before they can steal it, and the birds begin to doubt the story. They first send a wren, and later a robin, after Mar. The robin steals the fire but burns his breast red. The fire gets out of control, and neither the robin nor the cockatoo owns it anymore. Fire now belongs to everyone.

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