Why wagtail moves tail up and down

Motif

Why wagtail moves tail up and down.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits. · Animal's habitual bodily movements. · view the constellation · filed as A2479.1

Scholars’ trail — 1 reference (open)

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 226.

Within the index

Filed under Other habitual bodily movements of animals.

Filed beside it

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