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Motifs
- Creation of mole. A1893
- Mole struck on head in attempt to steal fire: hence his flat head. A2213.5.1
- Animal punished for hardheadedness (frog toothless, mole sightless). A2239.8
- Toad trades his tail for mole's eyes. A2247.5
- Why mole is blind. A2332.6.5
- Why mole has hand like man. A2375.2.6
- Why mole's "hands" are turned backward. A2375.2.7
- Where mole got tail. Traded eyes for it. (Cf. A2247, A2332.6.5.) A2378.1.4
- Why mole lives underground. A2433.3.20
- Why mole burrows underground. A2491.3
- Helpful mole. B449.2
- Injunction: protect certain stone from molestation. C665
- Ghost punishes person who molests him. E279.6
- Giant's soul in a mole in the hollow of his palm. E714.9
- Golden wagon drawn by moles. F861.1.1
- Mole pretends that he sees, smells, and hears. His mother tells him to claim no more senses than he has. J958
- Burying the mole as punishment. K581.3
- Mole as trickster killed in his own tunnel. He tricks the fox by going through the tunnel and eating the common food, but the fox sees the molehill and kills him. K1642