Stripes of chipmunk. (Cf. A2217.2.)

Motif

Stripes of chipmunk. (Cf. A2217.2.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits. · Animal characteristics: color and smell. · view the constellation · filed as A2413.2

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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 Dh III 57.

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Filed under Origin of animal's stripes.

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Travels with

Chipmunk's back scratched: hence his stripes. As he is trying to escape, bear catches him with his claws and marks him permanently. (Cf. A2413.2.)

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