The constellation
A2216 Animal characteristics: members bitten or cut off
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- Bear fishes through ice with tail: hence lacks tail. (Cf. A2378.2.4.) · A2216.1 entry
- Devil pulls off goats' tails: hence lack tails. (Cf. A2378.2.2.) · A2216.2 entry
- Moon splits hare's lip with hatchet: hence hare-lip. (Cf. A2211.2, A751.5.1, A2342.1.) · A2216.3 entry
- Bush-rat bites off tortoise's tail: hence tortoise's short tail. (Cf. A2378.4.4.) · A2216.4 entry
- Hawk's tail cut in two by sword as he is being transformed. Cause of his forked tail. (Cf. A2378.5.2.) · A2216.5 entry
- God as falcon has tail cut off: hence falcon's short tail · A2216.6 entry
- Formerly animals have ears like elephant's: hare bites them off · A2216.7 entry