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Motif

Animal characteristics: lending and refusing to receive back.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics: obtaining another's qualities. · view the constellation · filed as A2243

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  • Indonesian De Vries's list No. 117.
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Filed under Animal characteristics: obtaining another's qualities.

1 finer motif beneath it
Spider hands box to ant and refuses to take it back: hence ants carry huge loads
Filed beside it
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: obtaining for feast and not returning. (Cf. A2378.1.5, A2378.2.6.) Animal 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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