Origin of color of insect

Motif

Origin of color of insect.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits. · Animal characteristics: color and smell. · view the constellation · filed as A2411.3

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Literary CrystallizationParadise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books, Book 4

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

JapaneseIkeda.

Within the index

Filed under Origin of color of animal.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Origin of color of bee Color of spider. (Cf. A2221.2.3.)

Filed beside it

Origin of color of mammals Origin of color of bird Origin of color of fish Color of reptiles and other animal forms

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