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

Motif

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

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics from miscellaneous causes. · view the constellation · filed as A2271.2

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

LithuanianBalys Legends No. 266.

Within the index

Filed under Animal characteristics learned from another animal.

Filed beside it

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

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