Origin of cracks in tortoise's shell

Motif

Origin of cracks in tortoise's shell.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Origin of animal characteristics: body covering. · view the constellation · filed as A2312.1.1

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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.

Ila (Rhodesia)Smith and Dale 373 No. 23.

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Filed under Origin of tortoise's shell. (Cf. A2215.3, A2231.1.4, A2213.3, A2211.10.)

Travels with

Tortoise dropped by eagle: hence cracks in his shell. (Cf. A2312.1.1.)

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