Cuckoo's song. (Cf. A2275.2.)

Motif

Cuckoo's song. (Cf. A2275.2.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits. · Animal characteristics: voice and hearing. · view the constellation · filed as A2426.2.5

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Finnish The Kalevala , Rune X
Literary Crystallization Four Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee , A Midsummer-Night's Dream Act 3
Norse The Prose Edda (The Younger Edda) , BRAGE’S TALK. AFTERWORD
Finnish The Kalevala , Rune XLIV
Irish Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland , Ch. 55 CHAPTER IX. THE WEDDING AT CEANN SLIEVE

Filed across the traditions

Japanese Ikeda.

Within the index

Filed under Cries of birds.

Filed beside it

Nightingale's song. (Cf. A2272.1.1.) Garden warbler's song. (Cf. A2272.1.3.) Bittern's song. (Cf. A2261.1, A2275.3.) Hoopoe's song. (Cf. A2261.1, A2275.3.) Cawing of crow Croaking of raven Why dove coos Why goose quacks Why duck quacks What parrot says Meaning of swallow's song Cackling of guinea hen Why certain species of eagle cries like a baby: spirit of tortured baby became an eagle Origin of cry of brain-fever bird Origin of owl's cries. (Cf. A2427.3.) Origin and meaning of cock's cry "cock-a-doodle-do"

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Animal cries a lament over animal's transformation. (Cf. A2425, A2426.2.5.)

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