Voice of peewit

Motif

Voice of peewit.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits. · Animal characteristics: voice and hearing. · view the constellation · filed as A2421.7

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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.

LithuanianBalys Legends No. 264f.

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Filed under How animal got voice.

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How night-swallow got voice How woodcock got voice. Traded with turkey. (Cf. A2247)Where crow got voice. Traded with thunder-bird. (Cf. A2247)How partridge got voice. Borrowed from tortoise. (Cf. A2241)How nkundak got voice. (Cf. A2223.2.)Why cocks crow Why cat purrs. (Cf. A2236.8.)

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