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Origin of flounder's flat body. (Cf. A2126.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Origin of animal characteristics: body. · view the constellation · filed as A2305.1.2

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  • general *Dh I 248, 290, II 1ff., 269, III 35.
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Filed under Origin of fish's flat body. (Cf. A2231.9.)

Filed beside it
Origin of steel-head salmon's flat body Why lobster is flat. (Cf. A2213.2.4.)
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Origin of flounder Origin of flounder from Virgin Mary's half-eaten fish. (Cf. A2305.1.2.)

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