Why cat and dog fight: dog ate up cat's part in master's reward

Motif

Why cat and dog fight: dog ate up cat's part in master's reward.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics from miscellaneous causes. · view the constellation · filed as A2281.3

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Enmity between animals from original quarrel. (Cf. A2494.1.1, A2494.1.3, A2494.2.3.)

Filed beside it

Cat loses dog's certificate: enmity between cats and dogs. Dog is given a certificate of nobility. Through cat's carelessness it is lost. (Cf. A2275.5, A2494.1.2.) Squirrel steals dog's needle: enmity between them. (Cf. A2494.4.1.)

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