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

Motif

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

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics from miscellaneous causes. · view the constellation · filed as A2272.1

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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.

general *BP II 283, III 365.

Within the index

Filed under Animal characteristics: imitation of other animal or object.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Nightingale hears boy call oxen: learns her song. (Cf. A2426.2.1.)Cricket hears water hiss on hot iron: learns his song. (Cf. A2426.3.4.)Garden warbler hears smith beat iron: learns his song. (Cf. A2426.2.2.)

Filed beside it

Lizard's tail imitated from snake's

Travels with

Origin of animal cries. (Cf. A2261.1, A2272.1, A2275.1, A2275.2.)

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