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How toad lost tail.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Animal characteristics: extremities. · view the constellation · filed as A2378.2.7

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  • general Dh III 54. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 38 No. 287.
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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 How goats lost tails. (Cf. A2216.2.) How frogs lost tails. (Cf. A2231.4, A2236.3.) How bear lost tail. (Cf. A2216.1.) Why hydrax has no tail. (Cf. A2235.) How frog lost tail. (Cf. A2242, lent to squirrel.) Why flies lack tail

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