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Motif

Animal characteristics: obtaining for feast and not returning. (Cf. A2378.1.5, A2378.2.6.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics: obtaining another's qualities. · view the constellation · filed as A2242

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  • general *Dh III 133ff.
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Animal characteristics: borrowing and not returning. Animal borrows a member (or quality) from another and refuses to return it. (Cf. A2242, A2313.3, A2345.1, A2351.3, A2375.2.1, A2421.4, A2435.4.1.)Animal characteristics: lending and refusing to receive backAnimal characteristics: stolen from another animal. (Cf. A2313.3, A2375.2.2.)Animal characteristics: exchange of qualities. (Cf. A2313.2, A2326.1.2, A2326.1.4, A2326.2.1, A2332.6.5, A2345.4, A2378.1.3, A2378.1.4, A2421.2, A2421.3, A2431.3.3, A2431.3.4, A2435.3.1, A2435.3.2.)
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Animal characteristics: borrowing and not returning. Animal borrows a member (or quality) from another and refuses to return it. (Cf. A2242, A2313.3, A2345.1, A2351.3, A2375.2.1, A2421.4, A2435.4.1.)Where squirrel got tail. (Cf. A2241.7, A2242.)How frog lost tail. (Cf. A2242, lent to squirrel.)

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