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Animal characteristics: punishment for planning man's downfall.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics as punishment. · view the constellation · filed as A2236

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Filed under Animal characteristics as punishment.

8 finer motifs beneath it
What creature has sweetest blood: gnat's tongue torn out. Assembly to decide who has the sweetest blood so that it may be the food for the serpent. Gnat discovers that man has the sweetest blood. Rather than let him tell this secret, swallow tears out his tongue. Gnat can only buzz. (Cf. A2344.2, A2426.3.2.) Animal characteristics: punishment for carrying devil into paradise Animal punished for not warning of devil's temptation in Eden Magpie tells man he is to die next day: no tongue and long tail. God pulls out his tongue and makes his tail long for doing this forbidden thing. (Cf. A2344.2.6, A2378.3.1.) Animal punished for not heralding dawn Nit tries to bore through man's head: must remain at edge of hair. (Cf. A2433.5.1.) Jay carries sulphur to devil in hell: must be quiet at noon Cat commanded to pray so as not to slay man: why cat purrs
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Animal characteristics: punishment for impiety. (Cf. A2221, A2311.8, A2422.2, A2302.2, A2355.1.2, A2542.1.) Animal characteristics: punishment for immoderate request. Dissatisfied animal finds that when his request is granted he is worse off than before Animal characteristics: punishment for laziness Animal characteristics: punishment for disobedience Animal characteristics caused by animal's lateness at distribution of qualities. (Cf. A2378.2.5.) Animal characteristics punishment for meddling Animal characteristics: punishment for greed Animal characteristics from miscellaneous punishments

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