White markings on deer

Motif

White markings on deer.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits. · Animal characteristics: color and smell. · view the constellation · filed as A2412.1.1

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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.

LiberianBundy JAFL XXXII 417.

Within the index

Filed under Markings of mammals.

Filed beside it

Spots on leopard Why coyote has yellow patch behind his ears. (Cf. A2218.4.)Why kangaroo-rat has white band around his body. (Cf. A2218.4.)Why elephant has white marks on its body Why peccary has spots

Carried in tale types

The Boastful Deerslayer · ATU 830A3 recorded variants

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