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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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  • Bulu Krug 111f.
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Filed under Origin of hair and mane.

Filed beside it
How buffalo got hair under chin How zebra got its mane How goat got his beard Why sheep may keep wool which grows on his forehead. (Cf. A2255.1.)

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