Lions do not mate with their fellows, but prefer leopards. (Cf. Q551.3.) — Mythoi

Motif

Lions do not mate with their fellows, but prefer leopards. (Cf. Q551.3.)

Animals. · Fanciful traits of animals. · Fanciful habits of animals. · view the constellation · filed as B754.3

Cited in the index

general *Krappe Balor 82
general Frazer Apollodorus I 401. → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. IX

Within the index

Filed under Sexual habits of animals.

1 finer motif beneath it

Female rattlesnakes mate with black snakes rather than with male rattlesnakes

Filed beside it

Unusual sexual union of animals Animal changes sex periodically Elephants have sexual desire only after eating mandrakes Male rabbit bears young. Female rabbit escaped Noah on ark and drowned Cocks kept from intercourse with hens have tenderest meat Peacock pregnant without intercourse. Male spits up semen and female eats it. This as a curse. (Cf. A2236.5.) Unusual parturition of animal

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Punishment: transformation. (Cf. D661.)

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Animal nurse. Animal nourishes abandoned child Golden apple Punishment: transformation of lovers into lion and lioness for desecrating temple. They have had sexual relations in the temple. It was believed that lions do not mate with each other; hence their sin could not be repeated

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