Building site determined by halting of animal. Where the animal stops the building is erected

Motif

Building site determined by halting of animal. Where the animal stops the building is erected.

Animals. · Magic animals. · Animals with magic wisdom. · Oracular animals. · view the constellation · filed as B155.1

Scholars’ trail — 12references

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.

FinnishHolmberg Finno-Ugric 125, 145, Aarne FFC XXXIII 46 No. 82
EstonianAarne FFC XXV 133 No. 82
DanishKristensen Danske Sagn III (1895) 167ff., (1931) 117ff.
Irish mythCross
general Fb "kvie" II 338a, "kirke" IV 258a
general Sébillot France IV 114, 127
general Günter Christliche Legende des Abendlandes 81
general Dickson Valentine and Orson 54 n. 66
general *Pease Classical Philology XII (1917) 8ff.
general Norden on Vergil Aeneid VI, lines 136ff.
general Stemplinger Neue Jahrb. XLVII (1920) 41. – Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 70 no. 598
general Eng., Wales: Baughman.

Within the index

Filed under Location determined by halting of an animal.

1 finer motif beneath it

Building site determined by other action of animal

Filed beside it

City founded on spot where cow lies down Animal determines burial place of saint Neighing of horse indicates important spot

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