Why quail has no tail. Tricks crab into pulling out tail instead of killing her. Says that gripping her neck would not hurt but that pulling tail will be fatal

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Why quail has no tail. Tricks crab into pulling out tail instead of killing her. Says that gripping her neck would not hurt but that pulling tail will be fatal.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Animal characteristics: extremities. · view the constellation · filed as A2378.2.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

JewishNeuman, India: Thompson-Balys.
general Dh III 54. Flemish: DeMeyer FFC XXXVII 87 No. 90a

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