Spots on leopard

Motif

Spots on leopard.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits. · Animal characteristics: color and smell. · view the constellation · filed as A2412.1.2

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 13, Section XLIX
Literary CrystallizationMoby-Dick; or, The Whale, 32
YorubaThe Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa, Chapter 15

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 411f.

Within the index

Filed under Markings of mammals.

Filed beside it

White markings on deer 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

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