Tiger cursed with short sight in day time: good sight only at night

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Tiger cursed with short sight in day time: good sight only at night.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits. · Other habits of animals. · view the constellation · filed as A2491.4

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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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Why certain animals avoid light.

Filed beside it

Why bat flies by night. (Cf. A2275.5.3.)Why owl avoids daylight Why mole burrows underground Why grasshoppers and locusts hide in day

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