Discourteous answer: flounder's crooked mouth. When God asks him where he is going, instead of answering he turns to go toward God. His mouth becomes crooked. (Cf. A2341.1.)

Motif

Discourteous answer: flounder's crooked mouth. When God asks him where he is going, instead of answering he turns to go toward God. His mouth becomes crooked. (Cf. A2341.1.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics as punishment. · view the constellation · filed as A2231.1.2

Filed across the traditions

Livonian Loorits FFC LXVI 91 No. 92
Flemish DeMeyer FFC XXXVII 89 No. 117
Lithuanian Balys Index No. 3178, Legends Nos. 273–281.
general Dh III 24f. – Finnish: Aarne FFC VIII 21 No. 117

Within the index

Filed under Animal characteristics: punishment for discourteous answer to God (saint). (Cf. A2411.2.6.)

Filed beside it

Discourteous answer: why cow (horse) is always eating. When God (Peter) wants to use the cow (horse) the excuse is made that she (he) is eating. Curse: "May you always be eating!" (Cf. A2472.1, A2478.) Discourteous answer: why crab has eyes behind. (Cf. A2332.4.1.) Discourteous answer: tortoise's shell. Zeus celebrates a wedding and invites the animals. Tortoise is late. Why? "I like my house." "May you bear your house always." (Cf. A2312.1.)

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Why flounder's mouth is crooked. (Cf. A2252.4, A2231.1.2.)

Carried in tale types

The Flounder's Crooked Mouth · ATU 250A 1 recorded variant

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