Bat in war of birds and quadrupeds. Because of ambiguous form joins first one side and then the other. Discredited

Motif

Bat in war of birds and quadrupeds. Because of ambiguous form joins first one side and then the other. Discredited.

Animals. · Animals with human traits. · Animal warfare. · view the constellation · filed as B261.1

Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys
JapaneseIkeda
Africa (Benga)Nassau 163 No. 21, (Ibo, Nigeria): Basden 281, Thomas 161 (hornbill), (Mpongwe): Nassau 53 No. 8 (crocodile), (Yoruba): Ellis 252 No. 3.
general Wienert FFC LVI *48 (ET 66, 67), *52 (ET 166), 134 (ST 398, 399)
general Halm Aesop Nos. 307, 391
general Dh IV 197ff.

Within the index

Filed under War of birds and quadrupeds.

1 finer motif beneath it

Tame elephant not accepted by wild brethren

Carried in tale types

The Bat in War between Birds and Quadrupeds (previously Bat in War of Birds and Quadrupeds) · ATU 222A1 recorded variant

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