How peacock got its tail

Motif

How peacock got its tail.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Animal characteristics: extremities. · view the constellation · filed as A2378.1.9

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India Thompson-Balys.

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

Filed beside it

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