Why cuckoo has no nest. (Cf. A2231.3.1.)
Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits. · Animal characteristics: dwelling and food. · view the constellation · filed as A2431.2.1
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references
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.
- IndiaThompson-Balys
- LithuanianBalys Legends Nos. 198f., 250, 270.
- general Dh III 177, 195, 200
Within the index
Filed under Why bird has no nest. (Cf. A2233.4.1.)
1 finer motif beneath it
Filed beside it
Travels with