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Motif-Index of Folk-Literature
A2380. Animal characteristics: other bodily features.
A2381. Flesh of animal.
A2381.1. Why hog has good flesh. (See A2221.1.) — India: Thompson-Balys.
A2382. Why animal is a hybrid.
A2382.1. Magpie is a hybrid of dove and raven; was not baptized by water of the flood in Noah's time. (Cf. A2291.) — England: Baughman.
A2542.1.1. Magpie refuses to get into ark, sits around outside, jabbering over drowned world, is unlucky.
A2385. Excrements of animals.
A2385.1. Why dung of ass is triangular. Flemish: DeMeyer FFC XXXVII 86 No. 58d.
A2385.2. Why red dog's excrement contains animal hair. India: Thompson-Balys.
A2385.3. Honey as excrement of bees. India: Thompson-Balys.
A2385.4. Why cat hides its excreta. India: Thompson-Balys.
A2386. Gall-bladder of animal.
A2211.13. Stag defeated by snail vomits his gall-bladder: hence no gall-bladder.
A2391. Nature of bird's eggs.
A2391.1. Why canary's eggs are yellow. (See A2219.1.) — Dh III 65.
A2400—A2499. Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits.
A2400. Animal characteristics: general appearance.
A2401. Cause of animal's beauty.
A2402. Cause of animal's ugliness.
D1337. Magic objects makes beautiful or hideous.
A2402.1. Cause of serpent's ugliness. (See A2286.0.1.)
A2402.2. How ostrich lost beautiful feathers. (See A2252.3.)
A2410. Animal characteristics: color and smell.
A2411. Origin of color of animal.
A2286.2.4. God changes color of devil's animals. A2330.8. Color of animal's head. A2332.5. Color of animal's eyes.
A2411.1. Origin of color of mammals.
A2411.1.1. Origin of color of felidae.
A2411.1.1.1. Color of leopard. (See A2219.1.) — Dh III 69.
A2411.1.1.2. Color of jaguar. Dh III 62.
A2411.1.2. Origin of color of mustelidae.
A2411.1.2.1. Why weasel is white with dark tip to tail. Plains Cree: Skinner JAFL XXIX 350.
