Why cocks crow.
Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits. · Animal characteristics: voice and hearing. · view the constellation · filed as A2421.6
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Greco-RomanThe Library (Bibliotheca), APPENDIX, ch. 34
- Literary CrystallizationFaust: A Tragedy, Second Part, Act 2
- GermanicGrimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 116116.— THE BLUE LIGHT.
- GermanicGrimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 9191.— THE ELVES.
- GreekHesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica, THE BATTLE OF FROGS AND MICE
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.
- SpanishBoggs FFC XC 35 No. *205
- JewishNeuman
- IndiaThompson-Balys.