How animal got voice

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How animal got voice.

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

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

LithuanianBalys Index No. 3168, Legends Nos. 263–270
JapaneseIkeda.

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Filed under Animal characteristics: voice and hearing.

8 finer motifs beneath it

How night-swallow got voice How woodcock got voice. Traded with turkey. (Cf. A2247)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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How animal lost voice (or power of speech)General quality of animal's voice Origin of animal cries. (Cf. A2261.1, A2272.1, A2275.1, A2275.2.)Nature and meaning of animal cries Why animal howls (cries out) at night Animal's hearing

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