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- Bush-rat bites off tortoise's tail: hence tortoise's short tail. (Cf. A2378.4.4.) A2216.4
- Discourteous answer: tortoise's shell. Zeus celebrates a wedding and invites the animals. Tortoise is late. Why? "I like my house." "May you bear your house always." (Cf. A2312.1.) A2231.1.4
- Origin of tortoise's shell. (Cf. A2215.3, A2231.1.4, A2213.3, A2211.10.) A2312.1
- Origin of cracks in tortoise's shell. A2312.1.1
- Why tortoise's neck is outstretched toward the sky: is looking for his wife, the star. A2351.5
- Markings on tortoise's back. A2412.5.1