μῦθοι Mythoi
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

Cited in the index
  • 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

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