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Why animal lacks legs.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Animal characteristics: extremities. · view the constellation · filed as A2371.3

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Filed under Origin and nature of animal's legs.

1 finer motif beneath it
Why snake has no legs. (Cf. A2234.2, A2236.2.1, A2241.8.)
Filed beside it
Origin of animal's legs Shape of animal's legs Origin of color of animal's legs

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