Why bat flies by night. (Cf. A2275.5.3.)

Motif

Why bat flies by night. (Cf. A2275.5.3.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits. · Other habits of animals. · view the constellation · filed as A2491.1

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

JapaneseIkeda.
general Dh III 267. – Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3170
general Legends No. 271

Within the index

Filed under Why certain animals avoid light.

1 finer motif beneath it

Why bat sleeps by day. (Cf. A2236.3.)

Filed beside it

Why owl avoids daylight Why mole burrows underground Tiger cursed with short sight in day time: good sight only at night Why grasshoppers and locusts hide in day

Travels with

Bat, diver, and thornbush shipwrecked. Bat brought money, bush put on clothes, and diver brought leather. All shipwrecked. Diver is looking for his leather. Bush looks for his clothers and holds fast to all passers-by. Bat is abroad only at night to escape creditors. (Cf. A2471.4, A2491.1.)

Carried in tale types

The Bat in War between Birds and Quadrupeds (previously Bat in War of Birds and Quadrupeds) · ATU 222A1 recorded variant
A Bat, a Diver, and a Thornbush Shipwrecked · ATU 2891 recorded variant

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