Green pigeon cheated out of its chick: is always mourning

Motif

Green pigeon cheated out of its chick: is always mourning.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics from miscellaneous causes. · view the constellation · filed as A2275.4.1

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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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Animal cries recall ancient adventure. The ancient animal cries out in difficulty. The present animal has the same cry. (Cf. A2426.1.1, A2426.4.1.)

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