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Animal characteristics: members bitten or cut off.

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Tuamotu Stimson MS (z–G 13/441).
Within the index

Filed under Animal characteristics: change in ancient animal. (Cf. A2311.)

7 finer motifs beneath it
Bear fishes through ice with tail: hence lacks tail. (Cf. A2378.2.4.) 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
Filed beside it
Animal characteristics: accidental action of ancient animal Animal characteristics from great fear Animal characteristics from squeezing or stretching ancient animal. (Cf. A2231.9) Animal characteristics from dropping ancient animal from air Animal characteristics from throwing members at ancient animal Appearance of animal from marking or painting Animal characteristics from burning or singeing. (Cf. A2378.8.4, A2411.1.2.5, A2411.1.3.2, A2411.1.4.1, A2411.1.6.5, A2411.2.1.1, A2411.2.1.4, A2411.2.1.9, A2411.2.1.7, A2411.2.1.11, A2411.2.5.2, A2411.2.5.1, A2411.2.1.15, A2411.2.6.8, A2411.4.2, A2411.4.3, A2411.5.3.) Other accidents to ancient animal

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