How horned-viper got horns

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How horned-viper got horns.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Origin of animal characteristics: head. · view the constellation · filed as A2326.1.6

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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.

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How stag got antlers. From camel 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

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