ATU 47A The Fox Hangs onto the Horse's Tail (previously The Fox [Bear, etc

ATU 47A

The Fox Hangs onto the Horse's Tail (previously The Fox [Bear, etc

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

Motifs the recorded variants carry

Rabbit laughs: cause of hare-lip. (Cf. A2216.3, A2234.4, A2342.1.) 2 variants
Why hare's lip is split. (Cf. A2234.4, A2216.3, A2211.2.) 2 variants
Wolf tied to cow's horns. The fox ties one end of the rope around the wolf's neck, the other to the cow they intend to eat. The cow drags the wolf to the house where the man skins it. 2 variants
The bear bites the seemingly dead horse's tail. Is dragged off by the horse. 2 variants

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.