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  2. Category:Animal tales - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Animal tales" The following 121 pages are in this category, out of 121 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Adventures of Cow;

  3. Animal tale - Wikipedia

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    Animal tales can be understood in universal terms of how animal species relate to each other (for example, predators wishing to eat prey), rather than human groups in a specific society. Thus, readers are able to understand characters' motives, even if they do not come from the same cultural background as the author. Animal tales can be ...

  4. List of legendary creatures by type - Wikipedia

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    Salawa – the "Typhonian Animal," a slender, vaguely canine-animal that is the totemic animal of Set; Sigbin – is a creature in Philippine mythology (Philippines) Sky Fox (mythology), a celestial nine-tailed Fox Spirit that is 1,000 years old and has golden fur (Chinese) Shug Monkey – dog/monkey creature found in Cambridgeshire (Britain)

  5. List of fictional tricksters - Wikipedia

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    Coyote - a figure in tales from various Native American cultures. Kitsune - In Japanese folklore, they are described as "tricksters" with no care for the concept of right or wrong. Kuma Lisa - A fox and trickster figure in Bulgarian folklore. Loki - A cunning, shape-shifting god, sometimes benefactor and sometimes foe to the gods of Asgard ...

  6. List of fictional arthropods - Wikipedia

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    Ananse tales are some of the best-known in West Africa [5] The stories made up an exclusively oral tradition, and indeed Ananse himself was synonymous with skill and wisdom in speech. [6] It was as remembered and told tales that they crossed to the Caribbean and other parts of the New World with captives via the Atlantic slave trade. [7 ...

  7. List of fictional felines - Wikipedia

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    The White Cat is a character of the Animal Bride cycle of stories (ATU 402). It is present in a variant of the story: French literary fairytale La Chatte Blanche, penned by Madame d'Aulnoy. The character also features as a cameo in Tchaikovisky's ballet The Sleeping Beauty, during Aurora's wedding in Act III. Señor Don Gato: Children's song

  8. Animal Fairy Tales - Wikipedia

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    Animal Fairy Tales is a collection of short stories written by L. Frank Baum, the creator of the Land of Oz series of children's books. The stories (animal tales, comparable to Aesop's Fables or the Just-So Stories and Jungle Book of Rudyard Kipling) first received magazine publication in 1905.

  9. Animal as Bridegroom - Wikipedia

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    Academic Thomas Frederick Crane noted another set of tales which he called "The Animal Children": sometimes, the inhuman/animal suitor is born out of a hasty wish of their parents, or adopted by a human couple in their current beastly form. [2] [85] When the animal suitor grows up, he wishes for his parents to find a woman of marriageable age ...