Thrush teaches dove to build nest. (Cf. A2431.3.1.)

Motif

Thrush teaches dove to build nest. (Cf. A2431.3.1.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics from miscellaneous causes. · view the constellation · filed as A2271.1

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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.

FlemishDeMeyer FFC XXXVII 88 No. 93.
general *Type 236
general Dh III 191ff. – Finnish: Aarne FFC VIII 17 No. 93

Within the index

Filed under Animal characteristics learned from another animal.

Filed beside it

Sparrow taught to sing by lark but not sufficiently: where sparrow got voice

Travels with

Dove's nest. (Cf. A2271.1.)

Carried in tale types

The Magpie Teaches the Dove to Build a Nest (previously The Thrush Teaches the Doves (etc · ATU 2361 recorded variant

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