Why porcupine has only four claws

Motif

Why porcupine has only four claws.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Animal characteristics: extremities. · view the constellation · filed as A2376.3

Filed across the traditions

Tahltan Teit JAFL XXXII 226, 246.

Within the index

Filed under Animal characteristics: claws and hoofs.

Filed beside it

Why cow has cloven hoof Dog's claws as grains under paws. In the great famine, God leaves the dog grain under his paws. From this grows new seed How crab got its claws Why crab has legs like teeth of a comb

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