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Motif

Rabbit (frog) eats seed-grain from fields: nose closed during sowing season. (Cf. A2335.2.4.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics as punishment. · view the constellation · filed as A2238.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • FinnishAarne FFC VIII 21 No. 119
  • LithuanianBalys Legends No. 290.
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Filed under Animal characteristics: punishment for greed.

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Ring-dove eats man's grain: man may kill him. Similarly francolin and guinea fowlFish eat other fish: guilty must swim deep. (Cf. A2444.1.)Diver eats nests of small birds: must not nest away from water. (Cf. A2431.3.2.)
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Why hare's nose is closed during sowing season. (Cf. A2238.1.)

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