Chipmunk's back scratched: hence his stripes. As he is trying to escape, bear catches him with his claws and marks him permanently. (Cf. A2413.2.)

Motif

Chipmunk's back scratched: hence his stripes. As he is trying to escape, bear catches him with his claws and marks him permanently. (Cf. A2413.2.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics: change in ancient animal. · view the constellation · filed as A2217.2

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

SenecaCurtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 111 No. 13, 422 No. 78, Curtin Seneca 437, 505.

Within the index

Filed under Appearance of animal from marking or painting.

Filed beside it

Birds painted their present colors Marks on certain fish from fingerprints

Travels with

Marks on certain fish from St. Peter's fingerprints. (Cf. A901, A2217.2, A2412.4)Stripes of chipmunk. (Cf. A2217.2.)

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