Why owl avoids daylight

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Why owl avoids daylight.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits. · Other habits of animals. · view the constellation · filed as A2491.2

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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.

general Dh III 270. Ibo (Nigeria): Thomas 162
general (Wakweli): Bender 39, 46.

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