Why flies lack tail

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Why flies lack tail.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Animal characteristics: extremities. · view the constellation · filed as A2378.2.8

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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.

Africa (Duala)Ebding 142ff.

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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.)How toad lost tail

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