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

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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.

TahltanTeit JAFL XXXII 209.

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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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