Why loon has big beak

Motif

Why loon has big beak.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Origin of animal characteristics: face. · view the constellation · filed as A2343.1.3

Filed across the traditions

Tahltan Teit JAFL XXXII 209.

Within the index

Filed under Origin of bird's long beak.

Filed beside it

Where kingfisher got his long beak Where snipe got his long beak Where hornbill got his big beak. (Cf. A2241.9.)

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