μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Cricket hears water hiss on hot iron: learns his song. (Cf. A2426.3.4.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics from miscellaneous causes. · view the constellation · filed as A2272.1.2

Filed across the traditions
  • Livonian Loorits FFC LXVI 93 No. 99.
Within the index

Filed under Animal cries: imitation of sounds. (Cf. A2425.)

Filed beside it
Nightingale hears boy call oxen: learns her song. (Cf. A2426.2.1.) Garden warbler hears smith beat iron: learns his song. (Cf. A2426.2.2.)
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Cricket's chirp. (Cf. A2272.1.2.)

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