Why cat eats first

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Why cat eats first.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics – miscellaneous. · Other animal characteristics. · view the constellation · filed as A2545.2

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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.

LithuanianBalys Legends No. 225
general S. Carolina negro: Davis JAFL XXVII 244 (eats before washing).

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Filed under Animal given certain privilege.

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