Why antelope's antlers reach backward

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Why antelope's antlers reach backward.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Origin of animal characteristics: head. · view the constellation · filed as A2326.3.3

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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 Nature of animal's horns.

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Why cows have two horns. (Cf. A2286.2.3.)How stag got long antlers Why buffalo's horns are bent Why mountain-sheep's horns are close together

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