Animal pressed: hence facial or bodily marks. (Cf. A2412.4.)

Motif

Animal pressed: hence facial or bodily marks. (Cf. A2412.4.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics: change in ancient animal. · view the constellation · filed as A2213.2

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.
general Dh III 54, (cf. I 201f., 248, II 195)

Within the index

Filed under Animal characteristics from squeezing or stretching ancient animal. (Cf. A2231.9).

4 finer motifs beneath it

Wildcat's (Lynx's) face mashed in. (Cf. A2230.1.)Tortoise pressed into earth: hence humpy back. (Cf. A2356.2.9.)Baboon pressed on hot, flat rock: hence bald place on his back. (Cf. A2317.10.)Why lobster is shallow: insulted cattle step on it

Filed beside it

Ancient animal squeezed: hence small size. (Cf. A2302.)Animals' size increased by stretching. (Cf. A2312.1, A2301.)Animal characteristics changed by stretching Animal characteristics from being struck

Travels with

Markings on fish. (Cf. A2217.3, A2213.2.)

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