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Why women never have leisure. Because they refused to show God the way, saying they had no time.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Ordering of human life. · Origin of mental and moral characteristics. · view the constellation · filed as A1372.8

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • LithuanianBalys Index No. 3046, Balys Legends Nos 74–78.
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Filed under Origin of other special characteristics of women.

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Why women are prattlersWhy women laugh much. When Eve sees her first child she laughs over its smallnessWhy women are rovingWhy women have a treble voiceWhy women are deceitfulWhy some women are good-lookingOrigin of pleasant and unpleasant women. Contest arranged by Virgin Mary – laughter forbidden for some timeWhy women are subservient to menWhy women keep washing themselves. St. Andrew, sent to get salt to keep people clean, gets drunk and forgets. There is only enough for men

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