Origin of frog

Motif

Origin of frog.

Mythological motifs. · Creation of animal life. · Creation of fish and other animals. · Origin of amphibians and other animal forms. · Origin of amphibia. · view the constellation · filed as A2162

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Australian Aboriginal Australian Legendary Tales and More Australian Legendary Tales , 52 The Youayah Mayamah, or
Australian Aboriginal Australian Legendary Tales and More Australian Legendary Tales , 54 The Frog Heralds of the Flood
Literary Crystallization The Prophetic Books of William Blake (Sampson's Oxford Blake) , Visions of the Daughters of Albion
Literary Crystallization The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise , Hell 22

Filed across the traditions

Finnish Aarne FFC XXXIII 55 No. 11
Lappish Qvigstad FFC LX 38 No. 55 . Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 127fl, 202
Jewish Neuman
India Thompson-Balys
general Naskapi: Speck JAFL XXVIII 74.

Within the index

Filed under Origin of amphibia.

Filed beside it

Origin of toad

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Creation of animals through transformation. (Cf. A1811.1, A1833.2, A1861.1, A1861.2, A1863, A1887) Frogs formerly were ducks stolen from Eden by Cain. God changed them to frogs; and so frogs sound like ducks in the spring. (Cf. A2162.)

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