Demi-coq. A cock is cut in two and is made magic. Carries robbers, foxes, and stream of water under wings

Motif

Demi-coq. A cock is cut in two and is made magic. Carries robbers, foxes, and stream of water under wings.

Animals. · Magic animals. · Other magic animals. · Magic birds, fish, reptiles, etc. · view the constellation · filed as B171.1

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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 *Type 715
general *BP I 258. – Missouri French: Carrière.

Within the index

Filed under Magic chicken (hen, cock).

2 finer motifs beneath it

Magic cock carries great loads in his ear (load of grain, fox, tiger, bees, wasps, etc., also fire and water)Demi-coq crows in king's body, when the king eats him

Filed beside it

Magic fighting cock

Carried in tale types

Demi-cock · ATU 7153 recorded variants

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