How woodcock got voice. Traded with turkey. (Cf. A2247)

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How woodcock got voice. Traded with turkey. (Cf. A2247).

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits. · Animal characteristics: voice and hearing. · view the constellation · filed as A2421.2

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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.

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How night-swallow got voice Where crow got voice. Traded with thunder-bird. (Cf. A2247)How partridge got voice. Borrowed from tortoise. (Cf. A2241)How nkundak got voice. (Cf. A2223.2.)Why cocks crow Voice of peewit Why cat purrs. (Cf. A2236.8.)

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Animal characteristics: exchange of qualities. (Cf. A2313.2, A2326.1.2, A2326.1.4, A2326.2.1, A2332.6.5, A2345.4, A2378.1.3, A2378.1.4, A2421.2, A2421.3, A2431.3.3, A2431.3.4, A2435.3.1, A2435.3.2.)

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