Why dogs do not speak.
Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits. · Animal characteristics: voice and hearing. · view the constellation · filed as A2422.1.1
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Literary CrystallizationFour Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee, The Tempest Act 3
- HawaiianLegends of Maui and Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes, VIIVII.
- Depth CommentaryPrimitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Chapter V
- NorseThe Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga), IX
Scholars’ trail — 4references
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.
- ZuñiHandy JAFL XXXI 467
- TahltanTeit JAFL XXXII 243
- IndiaThompson-Balys.
- general Dh III 232. Benga: Nassau 163 No. 22