Creation of hog incomplete since God has to go to a fire: cause of hog's round snout. (Cf. A2335.4.2.)

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Creation of hog incomplete since God has to go to a fire: cause of hog's round snout. (Cf. A2335.4.2.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics from miscellaneous causes. · view the constellation · filed as A2286.1.1

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general Dh III 24, 493. – Finnish: Aarne FFC VIII 12 No. 65.

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Animal characteristics because creator had not enough time to finish what he began

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Why hog has round snout. Creation of hog incomplete since God had to go to fire. (Cf. A2286.1.1.)

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