How goat got his beard

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How goat got his beard.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Origin of animal characteristics: head. · view the constellation · filed as A2322.4

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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 hair and mane.

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How goat got his mane

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How buffalo got hair under chin How zebra got its mane Why sheep may keep wool which grows on his forehead. (Cf. A2255.1.)Why the gorilla and chimpanzee have hair all over the body. Punishment for not guarding possessions at creation

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