Why swallow has forked tail. (Cf. A2214.1.)

Motif

Why swallow has forked tail. (Cf. A2214.1.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Animal characteristics: extremities. · view the constellation · filed as A2378.5.1

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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 No. 3100, Legends Nos. 28, 192, 262.
general Dh III 54. Cf. Flemish: DeMeyer FFC XXXVII 87 No. 85

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Filed under Why animal has forked tail.

Filed beside it

Why hawk has forked tail. (Cf. A2216.5.)

Travels with

Swallow thrown on his tail: cause of split tail. (Cf. A2378.5.1.)

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