μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Blood from cross on robin redbreast: He helps Jesus; rewarded with red breast. (Cf. A2353.2.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics as reward. · view the constellation · filed as A2221.2.2

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Scholars’ trail — 5references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • LivonianLoorits FFC LXVI 90 No. 82
  • FlemishDeMeyer FFC XXXVII 87 No. 92**
  • LithuanianBalys Index No. 3130, Legends Nos. 229ff.
  • EnglandBaughman.
  • general Fb "rodkjælk". – Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 54 No. 92**
Within the index

Filed under Animals blessed for good services at crucifixion. (Cf. A2231.2.)

Filed beside it
Flies on Christ's body rewarded. They look like nails and prevent more nails being driven. They may eat at the king's table. (Cf. A2545.1.)Blood of scourged Christ on certain spiders. (Cf. A2411.3.2.)Swallows lift Christ's crown of thorns from his brow: why their nests are not destroyed. (Cf. A2431.3.5.)
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Why robin has red breast. (Cf. A2221.2.2.)
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