Flight of various birds

Motif

Flight of various birds.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits. · Animal characteristics: carriage. · view the constellation · filed as A2442.2

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Irish Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland , Ch. 2 CHAPTER II. THE REIGN OF BRES
Finnish The Kalevala , Rune XXVI
Welsh The Mabinogion , THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN
Literary Crystallization Masnavi i Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets (abridged) , Book 3, Story 7
Greco-Roman The Metamorphoses of Ovid , Book 6

Within the index

Filed under Method and position of bird's flight.

8 finer motifs beneath it

Why raven claps wings in flying. (Cf. A2218.6.) Why cuckoo flies with difficulty, and sings with wings spread Why lapwing flies in curves Bluejay's flight Hawk's flight Water-birds' flight and diving Wild-goose's flight Eagle's flight

Filed beside it

High and low flight of birds How birds began to fly

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