Animal characteristics determined by race

Motif

Animal characteristics determined by race.

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

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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 III 142ff.

Within the index

Filed under Animal characteristics: result of contest.

4 finer motifs beneath 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.)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.)

Filed beside it

Cock and ptarmigan in contest: winner to live in town. (Cf. A2433.1.1, A2433.4.2, A2433.4.3.)Lizard wins contest with toad: why snakes and lizards change their skins Animal characteristics from contest in carrying Animal characteristics from jumping contest Bird characteristics from flying contests Animal characteristics result of lawsuit Animal characteristics from contest in watching Animal characteristics from duel Animal characteristics: as a result of quarrel [First Edition: A2259. Animal characteristics from miscellaneous contests.]

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