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Why the gorilla and chimpanzee have hair all over the body. Punishment for not guarding possessions at creation.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Origin of animal characteristics: head. · view the constellation · filed as A2322.6

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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.

  • BuluKrug 111f.
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Filed under Origin of hair and mane.

Filed beside it
How buffalo got hair under chinHow zebra got its maneHow goat got his beardWhy sheep may keep wool which grows on his forehead. (Cf. A2255.1.)

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