Where mole got tail. Traded eyes for it. (Cf. A2247, A2332.6.5.)

Motif

Where mole got tail. Traded eyes for it. (Cf. A2247, A2332.6.5.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Animal characteristics: extremities. · view the constellation · filed as A2378.1.4

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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.

SpanishBoggs FFC XC 38 No. 287.

Within the index

Filed under Why animals have tail. (Cf. A2286.2.4.)

Filed beside it

Where baboon got tail. (Cf. A2262.2.)Where rat got tail. (Cf. A2241.7.)Where lizard got tail. From the snake. (Cf. A2247.)Where squirrel got tail. (Cf. A2241.7, A2242.)Where beaver got tail. (Cf. A2241.10.)How dog got its tail How monkey got its tail How peacock got its tail

Travels with

Animal characteristics: exchange of qualities. (Cf. A2313.2, A2326.1.2, A2326.1.4, A2326.2.1, A2332.6.5, A2345.4, A2378.1.3, A2378.1.4, A2421.2, A2421.3, A2431.3.3, A2431.3.4, A2435.3.1, A2435.3.2.)Why mole is blind

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