Why hare has short tail. (Cf. A2215.2, A2262.)

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Why hare has short tail. (Cf. A2215.2, A2262.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Animal characteristics: extremities. · view the constellation · filed as A2378.4.1

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

general Dh III 47ff. – Japanese: Ikeda
general Virginia (negro): Smiley JAFL XXXII 361
general Antigua: Johnson JAFL XXXIV 67.

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Why bear has short tail. (Cf. A2378.2.4.)Why marmot has short tail Why tortoise has short tail. (Cf. A2216.4.)Why jackal's tail is short Why monkey has short tail Why crow has short tail

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Hare runs away at creation; almost loses tail. When, as the most timid of all beasts, he runs away, God throws a tail at him from a pile of tails. (Cf. A2378.4.1.)Animal characteristics from transformation of implement (or other object). (Cf. A2335.3.1, A2378.3.3, A2378.4.1.)

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