Animals with many legs — Mythoi

Motif

Animals with many legs.

Animals. · Mythical animals. · Mythical beasts and hybrids. · view the constellation · filed as B15.6.3

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter LX LX. Between Heaven and Earth
North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 92 XCIII. ADAM AND EVE:?s

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross.
general Ipolyi Zs. f. deutsche Mythologie II 269. Hindu: Penzer III 259 n. 1 (sarabhas)

Within the index

Filed under Animals with unusual legs or feet. (Cf. B19.1.)

3 finer motifs beneath it

Six-legged quadruped Twelve-legged bird Seven-legged beast

Filed beside it

One-footed animal Three-legged quadrupeds Empousa. Monster with one foot of brass and another of an ass Bull with human hands and feet

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