Why frog's eyes bulge out

Motif

Why frog's eyes bulge out.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Origin of animal characteristics: face. · view the constellation · filed as A2332.4.3

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Africa (Congo)Weeks Jungle 459.

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Filed under Shape and position of animal's eyes.

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Why hare has deep-set eyes. (Cf. A2239.1.)Why crab lifts eye out of body or has eye behind. (Cf. A2231.10, A2231.1.3.)

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