Beaver and muskrat exchange tails

Motif

Beaver and muskrat exchange tails.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics: obtaining another's qualities. · view the constellation · filed as A2247.6

Cited in the index

general Malecite: Speck JAFL XXX 481f.

Within the index

Filed under 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.)

Filed beside it

Buffalo and cow exchange hides: hence bad fitting hides. (Cf. A2311.6.) Snake and turtle exchange head for fangs. Explains snake's fangs and snake-like head of turtle. (Cf. A2320.2, A2345.5.) Rhinoceros exchanges his red hide for hippopotamus's black. (Cf. A2411.1.6.2., A2411.1.6.7.) Dove and magpie exchange eggs – dove's seven for magpie's two: why dove has two eggs. (Cf. A2486.3.) Toad trades his tail for mole's eyes

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Why beaver has flat tail. (Cf. A2247.6, A2241.10, A2378.1.6.)

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