μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Devil's animals devour God's. God makes white fish, devil a pike to eat it up; God a worm, devil a frog to eat it, etc. (Cf. A1751.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics from miscellaneous causes. · view the constellation · filed as A2286.2.1

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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.

  • FinnishAarne FFC VIII 20 No. 115
  • EstonianAarne FFC XXV 149 No. 63.
Within the index

Filed under Animal characteristics result of contest between God and devil.

Filed beside it
Devil gives horse four eyes; God reduces them to twoDevil's cows one-horned; God makes them two-horned. (Cf. A2326.3.1.)God changes color (tails) of devil's cows. Devil makes all animals of same color (or all tailless). When God makes them of different colors (or with tails) devil no longer recognizes them. (Cf. A2378.1.)
Travels with
The devil's animals and God's. In the contest between God and the devil, certain animals are made by each
Carried in tale types

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