Origin of dents in crab's shell

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Origin of dents in crab's shell.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Origin of animal characteristics: body covering. · view the constellation · filed as A2312.3

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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.

TuamotuStimson MS (3–G 13/420).

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Filed under Origin of animal shell.

Filed beside it

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

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