Origin of cock's red crest

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Origin of cock's red crest.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Origin of animal characteristics: head. · view the constellation · filed as A2321.10

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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 Index 3160
IndiaThompson-Balys.

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Filed under Origin of bird crests.

1 finer motif beneath it

Why the cock's comb becomes white when he is angry

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Origin of goose's crest Origin of hoopoe's crest Origin of woodpecker's crest Origin of crested-lark's crest Origin of kingfisher's crest Origin of nkundak's crest. (Cf. A2223.2.)Origin of buzzard's crest Origin of red lump on rail's head. (Cf. A2215.4.)Origin of willow-grouse's crest Origin of woodpecker's crest

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