Bear fishes through ice with tail: hence lacks tail. (Cf. A2378.2.4.)

Motif

Bear fishes through ice with tail: hence lacks tail. (Cf. A2378.2.4.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics: change in ancient animal. · view the constellation · filed as A2216.1

Filed across the traditions

Esthonian Aarne FFC XXV 146 No. 42
Flemish DeMeyer FFC XXXVII 86 No. 78
Japanese Ikeda.
general *Type 2
general Dh III 49. – Finnish: Aarne FFC VIII 14 No. 78

Within the index

Filed under Animal characteristics: members bitten or cut off.

Filed beside it

Devil pulls off goats' tails: hence lack tails. (Cf. A2378.2.2.) Moon splits hare's lip with hatchet: hence hare-lip. (Cf. A2211.2, A751.5.1, A2342.1.) Bush-rat bites off tortoise's tail: hence tortoise's short tail. (Cf. A2378.4.4.) Hawk's tail cut in two by sword as he is being transformed. Cause of his forked tail. (Cf. A2378.5.2.) God as falcon has tail cut off: hence falcon's short tail Formerly animals have ears like elephant's: hare bites them off

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

How bear lost tail. (Cf. A2216.1.)

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