Why the hedgehog draws himself up: shame at sight of a good man

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Why the hedgehog draws himself up: shame at sight of a good man.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits. · Animal's habitual bodily movements. · view the constellation · filed as A2479.4

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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.

CheremisSebeok-Nyerges.

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Filed under Other habitual bodily movements of animals.

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