The constellation
Z52 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
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- The house is burned down. – That is too bad. – That is not bad at all, my wife burned it down. – That is good. – That is not good, etc · Z51.1 entry
- Chains involving contradictions or extremes · Z51 entry
- Cumulative tales – miscellaneous · Z50 entry
- The little old lady who swallowed a fly. She swallows a spider to eat up the fly, a bird to eat up the spider, a dog to eat the bird, a cow to eat the dog. "The little old lady swallowed a horse – she died, of course." · Z49.14 entry
- The animals with queer names: as hen (henny-penny), cock (cocky-locky), goose (goosey-poosey). (Cf. Z32.2.1.) · Z53 entry
- Other formulistic motifs · Z60 entry
- Never. Various ways of expressing this idea. When black sheep turn white, when a dry branch sprouts, etc · Z61 entry
- Never. "Till Ogham and pillar be blent together, till heaven and earth, till sun and moon be blent together." · Z61.1 entry