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Motifs
- Creation of porcupine. A1858
- Origin of porcupine's skin. (Cf. A2210.) A2311.5
- Why porcupine has only four claws. A2376.3
- Porcupine's dwelling. A2432.4
- Why porcupine lives in high places in mountains. A2433.3.11
- Why porcupines and skunks do not live on Cape Breton Island. A2434.2.1
- Enmity between porcupine and snail. A2494.12.10
- Broom, transformed into porcupine, drives away would-be ravisher. B524.5
- Porcupine as controller of cold. (Cf. K896.1.) D2144.1.1
- Wrestling between porcupine and deer. Deer defeated but always pleads illness. K12.5
- Porcupine, made to believe that rabbit's ears are horns, flees and leaves food behind. K335.0.4.2
- Beaver and porcupine trick each other. Beaver carries porcupine and abandons him in the center of a lake. Porcupine causes the lake to freeze and escapes. He then carries beaver and abandons him in the top of a tree. K896.1
- Ungrateful river passenger kills carrier from within. Crawls inside during the passage. (Porcupine and buffalo.) K952.1
- Tiger made to believe porcupine bristle is his enemy's hair: overawed. K1711.1
- Selfish guest expels host. Porcupine asks rabbit for hospitality. When rabbit complains of being pricked, porcupine tells him to leave if he does not like it. P332