Devil pulls off goats' tails: hence lack tails. (Cf. A2378.2.2.)

Motif

Devil pulls off goats' tails: hence lack tails. (Cf. A2378.2.2.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics: change in ancient animal. · view the constellation · filed as A2216.2

Cited in the index

general *BP III 200 (Gr. No. 148).

Within the index

Filed under Animal characteristics: members bitten or cut off.

Filed beside it

Bear fishes through ice with tail: hence lacks tail. (Cf. A2378.2.4.) 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 goats lost tails. (Cf. A2216.2.)

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