Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

Introduction
Bibliography
Ethnicities and habitats

N28H. A horse doesn't have horns. .32.34.

Horse horns are among the things that don't exist in the world.

(Koreans), Chuvash, Kazan Tatars, Trans-Baikal Buryats.

(Wed. China-Korea. Koreans ["Horns don't grow on a horse's head"]: Bregel 1961, No. 226:322).

Volga - Perm. Chuvashi: Romanov 2012 ["Shur martan vvi uk, lashan miraki uk, nen ilhi uk" (The white testicle has no suture, the horse does not have a suture horns, the cow has no bangs)]: 170; Taylor 1954 ["What are the three things not found in this world? - There is no ladder to climb to God, water has no branches, the horse has no horns"]: 365; Kazan Tatars [riddle: "There are seven creatures in the world that lack seven things. What are these creatures?" (A pigeon has no milk, a horse has horns, an egg has stitches, a cow has a mane, a stone has roots, a snake has legs, a cat has a beard)]: Makhmutov 2013, No. 2077:283.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Trans-Baikal Buryats (Aginsky) [riddle: "Horses have three drawbacks - guess which ones? - a) Without a horn, b) without bile, c) they don't chew gum"]: Bazarov 1902a, No. 5:23 (English translation in Taylor 1954, No. 1009:365).