Dog will not help build house: must remain out of doors. (Cf. A2223.1, A2433.3.2.)

Motif

Dog will not help build house: must remain out of doors. (Cf. A2223.1, A2433.3.2.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics as punishment. · view the constellation · filed as A2233.2

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Filed under Animal characteristics: punishment for laziness.

1 finer motif beneath it

Too cold for hare (dog) to build house in winter, not necessary in summer: must go without house

Filed beside it

Animals refuse to help dig well (make road) and are punished Owl as watchman goes to sleep: does not see by day. He is placed as watchman of wren who is imprisoned in a mousehole. (Cf. A2332.6.6.)Grasshopper builds no house for winter; ant strikes him blind: therefore born blind. (Cf. A2332.6.3.)

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Cat helps man build house: may occupy chimney corner. (Cf. A2233.2, A2433.3.1.)Dog's characteristic haunt. (Cf. A2233.2.)

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