Why weasel is white with dark tip to tail

Motif

Why weasel is white with dark tip to tail.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits. · Animal characteristics: color and smell. · view the constellation · filed as A2411.1.2.1

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

general Plains Cree: Skinner JAFL XXIX 350.

Within the index

Filed under Origin of color of mustelidae.

1 finer motif beneath it

Why weasel is part black

Filed beside it

Color of ermine Color of otter Color of skunk. (Cf. A2219.1.)Color of mink. Singed by sun. (Cf. A2218)

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