Birds indicate the place where a town (castle) is to be built

Motif

Birds indicate the place where a town (castle) is to be built.

Animals. · Magic animals. · Animals with magic wisdom. · Oracular animals. · view the constellation · filed as B155.2.3

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.

general Krappe Revue de l'histoire des Religions CXIV (1936) 236–246.

Within the index

Filed under City founded on spot where cow lies down.

Filed beside it

Village founded on spot when cock crows, dog barks, and mithian bellows Location of settlement at place a cow stops and where milk flows by itself Pursued animal indicates where city is to be built

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