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

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

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Animal characteristics: extremities. · view the constellation · filed as A2378.1

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ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter XLVIIXLVII. Lityerses
Literary CrystallizationThe Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, Hell 17
IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 12, Section CCLXIII
North American IndigenousTales of the North American Indians, Tale 16XVI. THE MAN WHO ACTED AS THE SUN ®

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Filed under Origin and nature of animal's tail.

9 finer motifs beneath 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 mole got tail. Traded eyes for it. (Cf. A2247, A2332.6.5.)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

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Why animals lack tail Why animal has long tail Why animal has short tail Why animal has forked tail Why animal has bushy tail Why animal has flat tail Origin of color of animal's tail Nature of animal's tail – miscellaneous

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God changes color (tails) of devil's cows. Devil makes all animals of same color (or all tailless). When God makes them of different colors (or with tails) devil no longer recognizes them. (Cf. A2378.1.)

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