How muskrat got long, thin tail

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How muskrat got long, thin tail.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Animal characteristics: extremities. · view the constellation · filed as A2378.3.2

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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.

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Filed under Why animal has long tail.

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How magpie got long tail. (Cf. A2236.4.)How wolf got long tail. (Cf. A2215.1; Cf. A2262.)Why fox has long tail. (Cf. A2213.4.2.)

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