Croaking of raven

Motif

Croaking of raven.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits. · Animal characteristics: voice and hearing. · view the constellation · filed as A2426.2.7

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

Eskimo (Ungava)Turner RBAE XI 261.
general Dh III 364, 373, 392. Finnish: Aarne FFC IX 9 No. 46. – Tahltan: Teit JAFL XXXII 223

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.)Cuckoo's song. (Cf. A2275.2.)Cawing of crow 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"

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