ATU 2A Torn-off Tails (previously The Buried Tail)

ATU 2A

Torn-off Tails (previously The Buried Tail)

Aarne–Thompson–Uther tale-type index · Animal Tales · The full type description is not served here; the number and name are the classification facts, and the motifs below are the doors onward.

Motifs the recorded variants carry

Tail buried (hair tied). Dupe bound fast and then attacked. 2 variants
Fox prefers to bear weight of his tail rather than give part of it to ape. 1 variant
Tailless fox tries in vain to induce foxes to cut off tails. 1 variant

Type numbers and names after Aarne–Thompson–Uther, via Hagedorn, trilogy (2022), CC-BY-NC-SA; motif links weighted by the dataset’s recorded tale variants. Served as classification facts with attribution.