Why hare's lip is split. (Cf. A2234.4, A2216.3, A2211.2.)

Motif

Why hare's lip is split. (Cf. A2234.4, A2216.3, A2211.2.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Origin of animal characteristics: face. · view the constellation · filed as A2342.1

Cited in the index

general Dh III 22f.
general BP III 75 n. 1
general Fb "hare" IV 201a
general Types 47, 70. – Micmac: Speck JAFL XXVIII 65
general Chitimacha: Swanton JAFL XXX 476.

Within the index

Filed under Origin and nature of animal's lips.

Filed beside it

Why ox has no hair on his lips. (Cf. A2221.5.1.)

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Rabbit laughs: cause of hare-lip. (Cf. A2216.3, A2234.4, A2342.1.) Moon splits hare's lip with hatchet: hence hare-lip. (Cf. A2211.2, A751.5.1, A2342.1.) Hare weeps for mother when forbidden: moon hits him and cleaves lip. (Cf. A2211.2, A2231.8, A2342.1.)

Carried in tale types

The Fox Hangs onto the Horse's Tail (previously The Fox [Bear, etc · ATU 47A 2 recorded variants
More Cowardly than the Hare · ATU 70 1 recorded variant
Contest of Frost and the Hare · ATU 71 1 recorded variant

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