C098. Baer (p. 106). Mr. Hawk and Mr. Buzzard

This is Chase098.

Types
Motifs
A2435.4.5 food of buzzard (?) - Ojibwa
A2435.4.6 food of hawks (?)
J2171.2.1 does not need roof when it is fair; cannot put it on when it rains
A2233.2.1 too cold for hare (dog) to build house in winter, not necessary in summer; must go without house.

Notes

Baer admits that these motifs are not really helpful. Jones has buzzard and hawk, as does Dorson (Why The Buzzard Went South), with three additional southern black examples.

Baer concludes: "This story may well be an Afro-American tale indigenous to the South."

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Whoa, I am really surprised: Baer does not say anything about this being two stories; before the story about hawk and buzzard, there is the story of buzzard in the rain -- that is in Jones also: Buh Tukrey Buzzud an de rain ... and there is an Aesop's fable about the dog who doesn't build a house when the sun comes out: Perry 449. The Dog's House, which Perry identifies as J2171.2.1, so I've added that motif here myself; Perry only gives the J item, but Thompson lists the A item beside the J item (and honestly, they seem like the same thing; the whole motif-type indexing seems so arbitrary in cases like this).