How stag got antlers. From camel

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How stag got antlers. From camel.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Origin of animal characteristics: head. · view the constellation · filed as A2326.1.1

Cited in the index

general See A2241.1.

Within the index

Filed under How animals got horns.

1 finer motif beneath it

Why deer has antlers: as reward for not cheating

Filed beside it

How caribou got antlers. Exchanged his teeth for walrus's horns. (Cf. A2247.) How sheep got horns How ox got horns. Exchanged for horse's teeth. (Cf. A2247.) How goats got horns How horned-viper got horns

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Stag's horns borrowed from dog. (Cf. A2326.1.1.)

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