Why cuckoo flies with difficulty, and sings with wings spread

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Why cuckoo flies with difficulty, and sings with wings spread.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits. · Animal characteristics: carriage. · view the constellation · filed as A2442.2.2

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

general Sébillot RTP III 265.

Within the index

Filed under Flight of various birds.

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