The constellation
Z51 Chains involving contradictions or extremes
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- Chains Involving Contradictions or Extremes · ATU 2014
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- Bird avenges caged mate. Builds cart, yokes frogs to it, arms himself with piece of reed, and proclaims war with king. Collects cat, ants, rope, club, and river. He is put by king into fowl house; cat eats up fowls. In stable rope and club beat up horses. In elephant-house ants get into their brains and kill them all. Tied to king's bed, river floods king in his bed. King gives bird back his mate · Z52 entry
- The animals with queer names: as hen (henny-penny), cock (cocky-locky), goose (goosey-poosey). (Cf. Z32.2.1.) · Z53 entry