Why crocodile has no tongue

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Why crocodile has no tongue.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Origin of animal characteristics: face. · view the constellation · filed as A2344.1.1.2

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Literary Crystallization Moby-Dick; or, The Whale , 79
Hermetic / Alchemical Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Volume I: Prolegomena , Chapter IX: Plutarch: Concerning the Mysteries of Isis and Osiris

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India Thompson-Balys.

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Why crocodile has half a tongue. (Cf. A2239.7.)

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