Grasshopper builds no house for winter; ant strikes him blind: therefore born blind. (Cf. A2332.6.3.)

Motif

Grasshopper builds no house for winter; ant strikes him blind: therefore born blind. (Cf. A2332.6.3.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics as punishment. · view the constellation · filed as A2233.4

Cited in the index

general Dh III 21.

Within the index

Filed under Animal characteristics: punishment for laziness.

1 finer motif beneath it

Bird neglects to build nest: goes without. (Cf. A2431.2.)

Filed beside it

Animals refuse to help dig well (make road) and are punished Dog will not help build house: must remain out of doors. (Cf. A2223.1, A2433.3.2.) 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.)

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Why grasshopper is born blind. (Cf. A2233.4.)

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