Why horse has only two eyes. (Cf. A2286.2.2.)

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Why horse has only two eyes. (Cf. A2286.2.2.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Origin of animal characteristics: face. · view the constellation · filed as A2332.2.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Greco-Roman The Metamorphoses of Ovid , Book 14
Literary Crystallization Four Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee , The Winter's Tale Act 1

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Filed under Number of animal's eyes.

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Devil gives horse four eyes; God reduces them to two

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