μῦθοι Mythoi
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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 266ff.
Within the index

Filed under Other habits of animals.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Why bat flies by night. (Cf. A2275.5.3.)Why owl avoids daylightWhy mole burrows undergroundTiger cursed with short sight in day time: good sight only at nightWhy grasshoppers and locusts hide in day
Filed beside it
Why certain animals go in herdsFriendships between the animalsWhy certain animals are enemiesAnimal's treatment of its excrements (urine)Sexual intercourse of animalsMonogamy among animalsOther habits of animals – miscellaneous

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