Shepherd transformed to bird still calls sheep: explanation of bird cries. Usually told of hoopoe and bittern. (Cf. A1952, A1965.2, A2275.3, A2425, A2426.2.3, A2426.2.4.)

Motif

Shepherd transformed to bird still calls sheep: explanation of bird cries. Usually told of hoopoe and bittern. (Cf. A1952, A1965.2, A2275.3, A2425, A2426.2.3, A2426.2.4.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics from transformation. · view the constellation · filed as A2261.1

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 123 No. 83, 127.
general *Dh III 392–396
general BP III 285 (Gr. No. 173). – Japanese: Ikeda

Within the index

Filed under Animal characteristics from transformation of animal.

Filed beside it

Spider transformed for greediness: now occupies dark corners. (Cf. A2433.5.3.)Catfish transformed from woman still carries women's tatoo marks Woodpecker transformed from stingy woman: therefore stingy Weeping man turned into owl; still bewails sorrows Snipe messenger for warriors because he was a messenger when a man

Travels with

Creation of hoopoe. Transformed shepherd. (Cf. A1710, A2261.1.)Bittern from transformed shepherd. (Cf. A1710, A2261.1.)Animal cries reminiscent of former life as man. (Cf. A2261.1, A2426.2.3, A2426.2.4.)Origin of animal cries. (Cf. A2261.1, A2272.1, A2275.1, A2275.2.)Bittern's song. (Cf. A2261.1, A2275.3.)Hoopoe's song. (Cf. A2261.1, A2275.3.)

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