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Motif

Treasure from bird's feathers.

Animals. · Magic animals. · Treasure animals. · Treasure-producing parts of animals. · view the constellation · filed as B113.3

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“At last the goldsmith said, " I should indeed like to have the bird itself." The poor man went into the forest for the third time, and again saw the golden bird sitting on the tree, so he took a stone and brought it down and carried it to his brother, who gave him a great heap of gold for it. " Now I can get on," tliought he, and went contentedly home. The goldsmith was crafty and cunning, and knew very well what kind of a bird it was.”

Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 60 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

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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.

  • GermanGrimm Nos. 60, 64.
Within the index

Filed under Treasure-producing parts of bird.

Filed beside it
Treasure-producing bird-heart. (Cf. D1015.1.1.) Brings riches when eatenTreasure-producing bird-head. (Cf. D1011.0.1.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Speaking lionSpeaking bearSpeaking wolfSpeaking foxSpeaking hare (rabbit)Helpful animals a giftRelease of animal by hunter (fisher)Dwarf assumes human formBread becomes cakeBeer becomes wineMagic objects possessed by witch, sorcerer or evil dwarf. (Cf. F451.7, G234, D1711.)Magic object received from dwarf

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