"Blindness" in animals. Animals really or supposedly blind

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

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Origin of animal characteristics: face. · view the constellation · filed as A2332.6

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

general Dh III 19ff.

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Filed under Origin and nature of animals' eyes.

9 finer motifs beneath 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 mole is blind Why owl is blind by day. (Cf. A2233.3.)Why elephant sees half-blindly Why leech is blind Why bee is blind

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Origin of animals' eyes Number of animal's eyes Size of animals' eyes Shape and position of animal's eyes Color of animal's eyes

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