Why young ravens have white feathers

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Why young ravens have white feathers.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Origin of animal characteristics: body covering. · view the constellation · filed as A2313.5

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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.

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Filed under Origin of bird's feathers.

Filed beside it

Origin of cuckoo's feathers. (Cf. A2241.6.)Origin of magpie's feathers. Exchanges with dove. (Cf. A2247.)Origin of peacock's feathers. (Cf. A2241, A2245.)Origin of nkundak's feathers. (Cf. A2223.2.)

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