Why ravens have crooked legs and walk lame

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Why ravens have crooked legs and walk lame.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Animal characteristics: extremities. · view the constellation · filed as A2371.2.3

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TahltanTeit JAFL XXXII 226.

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