Magpie as prophetic bird

Motif

Magpie as prophetic bird.

Animals. · Magic animals. · Animals with magic wisdom. · Prophetic animals. · view the constellation · filed as B143.0.2

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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 Fb. "Skade" III 219
general Handwb. d. Abergl. III 796 "Elster".

Within the index

Filed under Prophetic bird. (Cf. B172.)

Filed beside it

Swan as prophetic bird Owl as prophetic bird Raven as prophetic bird Hen as prophetic bird Dove as prophetic bird Eagle as prophetic bird Crow as prophetic bird Bird gives warning. (Cf. B131.5.)Bird describes doomsday

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