μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • AngolaChatelain 153 No. 16
  • India*Thompson-Balys.
  • general *Dh III 554 s.v. "Taube". Finnish: Aarne FFC IX 12 No. 57
  • general Jamaica negro: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 259 No. 50
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 crowCroaking of ravenWhy goose quacksWhy duck quacksWhat parrot saysMeaning of swallow's songCackling of guinea henWhy certain species of eagle cries like a baby: spirit of tortured baby became an eagleOrigin of cry of brain-fever birdOrigin of owl's cries. (Cf. A2427.3.)Origin and meaning of cock's cry "cock-a-doodle-do"

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