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bluepenguin
Since: Jan, 2001
fawn
Since: Aug, 2009

De we have a trope for a myth or fanciful story explaining why something is?
Examples of what I'm talking about:
According to Melody Time, coyotes howl at the moon out of sympathy for a man who lost his love.
And the somewhat racist Peter Pan song "What Made The Red Man Red". Red man are red because one of them blushed when he was kissed, and they all have been red sense then.