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Love this...a couple of questions related (maybe?) to translation. When the dogs ''slap'' the moor, are you suggesting they are behaving in a (somewhat) human way, since slapping is done with the palm of the hand (i.e. not with a paw)? Clearly carrying candles around is not ordinary dog behaviour, but anything can happen in a folktale. My feeling is that the dogs act more human as the story progresses, but I realise I could be over-analysing. And finally, any ideas about why the candles? Is it some unexplained dog-ritual (just a surreal detail in the folktale), or do the dogs understandably (in human terms, anyway) just need to have some light for their midnight forensic investigation to locate and remove the spikes?

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