Motif
Animal behavior explained by a past contest
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A motif of the Cosmic Origin and Creation family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
germanic
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Household Tales by Brothers Grimm SECOND STORY / FIRST STORY / SECOND STORY / THIRD STORY; lines 23013-23107 confidence: high
The narrator explains that the hedgehog made the hare run on the Buxtehuder heath until he died, and that since then no hare has fancied racing a Buxtehuder hedgehog.
The narrator states that no hare has since wished to run races with a Buxtehuder hedgehog because of this event.
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