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Why men no longer know time of death. Custom changed when men began to repair fences with stalks when they knew they were to die the next day.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Origin of customs. · Origin of other customs. · view the constellation · filed as A1593

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Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross
  • Lithuanian Balys Index No. 3062, Legends Nos. 115–120. – Esthonian: Aarne FFC XXV 142 No. 19
  • Livonian Loorits FFC LXVI 84 No. 37.
  • general *Babler Sudetendeutsche Zs. f. Vksk. VII (1934) 171ff.
Within the index

Filed under Origin of other customs.

Filed beside it
Origin of burial Origin of cremation Origin of physicians Origin of tattooing Origin of army Origin of custom of wearing a beard Origin of customs of hospitality Origin of additional customs
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