Animal characteristics: punishment for greed.
Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics as punishment. · view the constellation · filed as A2238
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Filed under Animal characteristics as punishment.
4 finer motifs beneath it
Rabbit (frog) eats seed-grain from fields: nose closed during sowing season. (Cf. A2335.2.4.)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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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 beforeAnimal characteristics: punishment for lazinessAnimal characteristics: punishment for disobedienceAnimal characteristics caused by animal's lateness at distribution of qualities. (Cf. A2378.2.5.)Animal characteristics: punishment for planning man's downfallAnimal characteristics punishment for meddlingAnimal characteristics from miscellaneous punishments