Animals refuse to help dig well: may not drink from river or spring. (Cf. A2435.1.1.)

Motif

Animals refuse to help dig well: may not drink from river or spring. (Cf. A2435.1.1.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics as punishment. · view the constellation · filed as A2233.1.1

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

LivonianLoorits FFC LXVI 90 No. 83
LithuanianBalys Index No. 3096, Legends Nos. 176–182.
general Type 55
general Dh III 312ff. – Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 148 No. 54

Within the index

Filed under Animals refuse to help dig well (make road) and are punished.

Filed beside it

Snake refuses to help make road: dies on road. (Cf. A2441.4.1.)Shrew refuses to help make road: dies on road. (Cf. A2468.1.)Sloth refuses to help make road: may not look upon sun

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Why certain birds may not drink out of river. (Cf. A2233.1.1.)

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