Lizard wins contest with toad: why snakes and lizards change their skins

Motif

Lizard wins contest with toad: why snakes and lizards change their skins.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics: result of contest. · view the constellation · filed as A2250.2

Scholars’ trail — 1 reference (open)

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.

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Animal characteristics: result of contest.

Filed beside it

Cock and ptarmigan in contest: winner to live in town. (Cf. A2433.1.1, A2433.4.2, A2433.4.3.) Animal characteristics from contest in carrying Animal characteristics determined by race Animal characteristics from jumping contest Bird characteristics from flying contests Animal characteristics result of lawsuit Animal characteristics from contest in watching Animal characteristics from duel Animal characteristics: as a result of quarrel [First Edition: A2259. Animal characteristics from miscellaneous contests.]

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Why snakes and lizards change skins. (Cf. A2250.2.)

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