Markings on insects

Motif

Markings on insects.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits. · Animal characteristics: color and smell. · view the constellation · filed as A2412.3

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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.

JapaneseIkeda.

Within the index

Filed under Origin of animal markings. (Cf. A2211.12, A2221.3, A2221.7.)

2 finer motifs beneath it

Why louse has mark on his back Origin of butterflies' marks

Filed beside it

Creator sends two deities to tatoo all creatures: origin of animal markings Markings of mammals Markings on birds. (Cf. A2211.7.)Markings on fish. (Cf. A2217.3, A2213.2.)Markings on other animals

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