How snake got small head. (Cf. A2213.1.)

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How snake got small head. (Cf. A2213.1.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Origin of animal characteristics: head. · view the constellation · filed as A2320.1

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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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Ancient animal squeezed: hence small size. (Cf. A2302.)

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