Magpie refuses to get into ark, sits around outside, jabbering over drowned world, is unlucky. (Cf. A2232.4.)

Motif

Magpie refuses to get into ark, sits around outside, jabbering over drowned world, is unlucky. (Cf. A2232.4.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics – miscellaneous. · Other animal characteristics. · view the constellation · filed as A2542.1.1

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EnglandBaughman.

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Filed under Why magpie is cursed. (Cf. A2231.)

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Griffin disdains to go on ark; drowned: hence extinct

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