Animal's occupation: stealing

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Animal's occupation: stealing.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits. · Animal's daily work. · view the constellation · filed as A2455

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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.

general Dh III 255.

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Filed under Animal's daily work.

5 finer motifs beneath it

Why wolf is thief Why swallow is thief Why raven is thief. Because he has none of ten commandments and carries a black stamp on his breast Why hen does not know how to steal Why wolverine is a thief

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