Color of cuckoo

Motif

Color of cuckoo.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits. · Animal characteristics: color and smell. · view the constellation · filed as A2411.2.6.10

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

FinnishThe Kalevala, Rune VII

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

LappishQvigstad FFC LX 38 No. 49.
general Type 235
general Dh III 140. Finnish: Aarne FFC VIII 17 No. 94

Within the index

Filed under Origin of color of other birds.

Filed beside it

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