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.)

Motif

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.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics as punishment. · view the constellation · filed as A2231.1.4

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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general Dh IV 275f. – Wienert FFC LVI 76 (ET 424), 139 (ST 443)
general Halm Aesop No. 154.

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: 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.)Discourteous answer: why crab has eyes behind. (Cf. A2332.4.1.)

Travels with

Origin of tortoise's shell. (Cf. A2215.3, A2231.1.4, A2213.3, A2211.10.)

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