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El tipo 2 - The Tail-Fisher. se ha identificado en los siguientes relatos:

El conejo y el coyote, por José Refugio Padilla Romo, de Jalostotitlán, Jalisco

 

 

Información sobre este tipo cuentístico: Description: A bear (wolf) meets a fox who has caught a big load of fish. He asks him where he caught them, and the fox replies that he was fishing with his tail through a hole in the ice. He advises the bear to do likewise and the bear does. When the bear tries to pull his tail out of the ice (because men or dogs are attacking him), it is frozen in place. He runs away but leaves his tail behind [K1021]. Cf. Type 1891.

Combinations: This type is usually combined with episodes of one or more other types, esp. 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 15, 41, 158, and 1910.

Remarks:Documented in 1178 in the Roman de Renart (III, 377-510). A humorous episode in a cycle of animal tales. Also an etiological legend to explain why bears have short tails.

(Hans-Jörg Uther. The types of International Folktales. A Classification and Bibliography, Based on the System of Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia-Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2004.)