Animals from different parts of body of slain giant. Giant person, cow, ox, etc

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Animals from different parts of body of slain giant. Giant person, cow, ox, etc.

Mythological motifs. · Creation of animal life. · Creation of animal life – general. · Creation of animals through transformation. · view the constellation · filed as A1716.1

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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.

PersianCarnoy 288. – Borneo, Philippines: Dixon 177.

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Filed under Animals from transformed ogre or giant.

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Insects from body of slain monster. Usually the monster is burnt; sometimes the insects come from his head, sometimes from his body as it burns. (Cf. A1716.1.)Origin of insects: God throws sand on lazy shepherds. (Cf. A1716.1)

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