Animals eat deity's forbidden fruit: punished. (Cf. A2371.3.1.)

Motif

Animals eat deity's forbidden fruit: punished. (Cf. A2371.3.1.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics as punishment. · view the constellation · filed as A2234.2

Filed across the traditions

African (Ekoi) Talbot 377.

Within the index

Filed under Animal characteristics: punishment for disobedience.

Filed beside it

Raven does not return to Noah: must suffer thirst and break bill. (Cf. A2231.2.1, A2411.2.1.5, A2435.4.3.) Variant: he is cursed to be black or to eat carrion Lemur looks where forbidden: has big eyes. (Cf. A2332.3.1.) Hare weeps for mother when forbidden: moon hits him and cleaves lip. (Cf. A2211.2, A2231.8, A2342.1.)

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Why snake has no legs. (Cf. A2234.2, A2236.2.1, A2241.8.)

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