The constellation
K581 Animal "punished" by being placed in favorite environment
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- Drowning punishment for turtle (eel, crab). By expressing horror of drowning, he induces his captor to throw him into the water – his home · K581.1 entry
- Briar-patch punishment for rabbit. By expressing horror of being thrown into the briar patch he induces his captor into doing so. He runs off · K581.2 entry
- Burying the mole as punishment · K581.3 entry
- Bird punished by being thrown into air · K581.4 entry
- Burning the jackal. He expresses horror of that punishment. Sets fire to village from his burning tail. Why he has burnt tip on tail · K581.5 entry
- Thieving insect put in closely woven basket asks to be put in a loosely woven one so he cannot see · K581.6 entry
keeps company
- Victim persuaded to hold out his tongue: cut off. Robbers induced by various excuses (to learn to sing, to learn foreign language, to have a hair taken off the tongue) · K825 entry
- Deceptive scratching contest · K83 entry
- Trickster pollutes nest and brood of bird · K932 entry
- Rape · T471 entry
- Trickster's burnt flesh becomes gum on trees · A2731.1 entry
- Magic garment (robe, tunic) · D1052 entry
- Magic reawakening of memory. (Cf. D1360, D1910.) · D2006 entry
- Transformation to be put in food-bag · D657.1 entry
- Transformation to seduce · D658 entry
- Magic treasure animal killed. (Goose that laid the golden egg) · D876 entry
attested in
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 38