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Motifs
- Tortoise dropped by eagle: hence cracks in his shell. (Cf. A2312.1.1.) A2214.5.1
- Origin of cracks in tortoise's shell. A2312.1.1
- Animals (and men) hop because ground is often so dry that it cracks: they have to jump over the cracks. A2441.1.0.1
- Snake cracks self like coach whip and chases man. B765.10
- Salamander gets into veins through cracks in feet when person goes barefoot. B784.1.8
- Filling cracks with butter. Numskull sees cracks in the ground and feels so sorry for them that he greases them with the butter he is taking home. J1871
- Penniless wooer. "House of my father with one hundred fifty lights and goat pen." When the servant in bed so remarks the master marries his daughter to him. Arrived at the hut, he explains that the lights are the stars whose beams enter through the cracks in the roof. One goat is tied to the tree. K1917.4
- Idol cracks open to grant refuge to fugitive in answer to prayer; then closes again. R325.2
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