Flounder complains in race: crooked mouth. In race between fish he cries out in jealousy because herring is winning. He is punished with crooked mouth. (Cf. A2341.1.)

Motif

Flounder complains in race: crooked mouth. In race between fish he cries out in jealousy because herring is winning. He is punished with crooked mouth. (Cf. A2341.1.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics: result of contest. · view the constellation · filed as A2252.4

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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.

general *Dh IV 192–197
general *BP III 284 (Gr. No. 172).

Within the index

Filed under Animal characteristics determined by race.

Filed beside it

Race of animals to see where each shall live. (Cf. A2433.1.1.)Race of ox and horse: ox must labor. Horse wins and ox must serve as draft animal. (Cf. A2515.1.)Race of culture hero with ostrich: ostrich loses beautiful feathers. (Cf. A2402.2.)

Travels with

Why flounder's mouth is crooked. (Cf. A2252.4, A2231.1.2.)

Carried in tale types

The Flounder's Crooked Mouth · ATU 250A1 recorded variant

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