Marine lamb. Wool taken from sea lamb. (Really textiles from shell-fish pinna) — Mythoi

Motif

Marine lamb. Wool taken from sea lamb. (Really textiles from shell-fish pinna).

Animals. · Mythical animals. · Other mythical animals. · view the constellation · filed as B95.2

Cited in the index

general Laufer JAFL XXVIII 103ff.

Within the index

Filed under Vegetable lamb. Generated from ground. Umbilical cord is in the ground and the lambs will die if it is forcibly severed. They are frightened into severing it themselves and then live. Vertebrae of the neck planted to produce new ones.

Filed beside it

Vegetable lamb born from melons (as from eggs)

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