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

Motif

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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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.

general *Dh I 248, 290, II 1ff., 269, III 35.

Within the index

Filed under Origin of fish's flat body. (Cf. A2231.9.)

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Origin of steel-head salmon's flat body Why lobster is flat. (Cf. A2213.2.4.)

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Origin of flounder Origin of flounder from Virgin Mary's half-eaten fish. (Cf. A2305.1.2.)

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