How magpie got long tail. (Cf. A2236.4.)

Motif

How magpie got long tail. (Cf. A2236.4.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Animal characteristics: extremities. · view the constellation · filed as A2378.3.1

ask the rhapsode about this motif →

Within the index

Filed under Why animal has long tail.

Filed beside it

How muskrat got long, thin tail How wolf got long tail. (Cf. A2215.1; Cf. A2262.)Why fox has long tail. (Cf. A2213.4.2.)

Travels with

Magpie tells man he is to die next day: no tongue and long tail. God pulls out his tongue and makes his tail long for doing this forbidden thing. (Cf. A2344.2.6, A2378.3.1.)

wander