Animal persuaded to amputate limb: therefore lacks it. (Cf. A2371.2.10, A2377.1.)

Motif

Animal persuaded to amputate limb: therefore lacks it. (Cf. A2371.2.10, A2377.1.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics from miscellaneous causes. · view the constellation · filed as A2284.1

Filed across the traditions

Australian Dixon 146 (kangaroo's forepaws), 288 (emu's wings).

Within the index

Filed under Origin of animal characteristics: animal persuaded into self-injury.

Filed beside it

Bustard persuaded to kill all but two children: has but two eggs. (Cf. A2486.2.) Worm, thinking that world is coming to end, blinds self so as not to see calamity. (Cf. A2332.6.4.) Elephant tricked into eating own testicles. Has them inside. (Cf. A2365.1.1.) Coyote persuaded to break leg: therefore has thin right leg. (Cf. A2371.2.6.) Jackal persuades hyena to jump and break foot. Latter has short left hind foot. (Cf. A2375.2.5.)

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Why kangaroo has short front legs. (Cf. A2284.1.) Why emu has no wings. (Cf. A2284.1.)

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