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Motif

Giant whale cast ashore on the night of Christ's Nativity: "fifty men were on the upper parts of its head, and (there was) the limit of vision between each two of them. Such was the amount of ground which the animal occupied.

Animals. · Miscellaneous animal motifs. · Giant animals. · view the constellation · filed as B874.3.2

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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.

  • Irish mythCross.
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Filed under Giant whale.

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Whale cast ashore – three golden teeth and five ounces in each of these teeth

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