Why foxes do not live on a certain island: driven out by a god

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Why foxes do not live on a certain island: driven out by a god.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits. · Animal characteristics: dwelling and food. · view the constellation · filed as A2434.2.2

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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.

JapaneseAnesaki Japanese Myth. 252.

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