Magic bird's song. Brings joy and oblivion for many years. Wakes the dead

Motif

Magic bird's song. Brings joy and oblivion for many years. Wakes the dead.

Animals. · Magic animals. · Other magic animals. · Magic birds, fish, reptiles, etc. · view the constellation · filed as B172.2

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

WelshMacCulloch Celtic 104.
general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 562
general Hartland Science 188f., *Krappe Bull. Hispanique XXXIX 29. – Irish myth: Cross, Plummer clxxxvi

Within the index

Filed under Magic bird.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Magic bird's song brings sleep B172.2. Magic bird's song dispels grief

Filed beside it

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