Why mole is blind

Motif

Why mole is blind.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Origin of animal characteristics: face. · view the constellation · filed as A2332.6.5

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Literary CrystallizationFour Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee, The Tempest Act 4
Literary CrystallizationUlysses, 3 Proteus

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

SpanishBoggs FFC XC 38 No. 287
JewishNeuman.

Within the index

Filed under "Blindness" in animals. Animals really or supposedly blind.

Filed beside it

Why blindworm has no eyes. (Cf. A2241.5.)Why giant lizard is blind. Chose poison instead of eyes Why grasshopper is born blind. (Cf. A2233.4.)Why worm is blind. (Cf. A2284.3.)Why owl is blind by day. (Cf. A2233.3.)Why elephant sees half-blindly Why leech is blind Why bee is blind

Travels with

Animal punished for hardheadedness (frog toothless, mole sightless)Animal characteristics: exchange of qualities. (Cf. A2313.2, A2326.1.2, A2326.1.4, A2326.2.1, A2332.6.5, A2345.4, A2378.1.3, A2378.1.4, A2421.2, A2421.3, A2431.3.3, A2431.3.4, A2435.3.1, A2435.3.2.)Where mole got tail. Traded eyes for it. (Cf. A2247, A2332.6.5.)

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