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Motif

Speaking cat.

Animals. · Animals with human traits. · Speaking animals. · view the constellation · filed as B211.1.8

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“Next morning the King came and said, "Now thou mast have learnt what shuddering is ? " " No," he answered ; " what can it be ? My dead cousin was here, and a bearded man came and showed me a great deal of money down below, but no one told me what it was to shudder." " I'hen," said the King, " thou hast delivered the castle, and shalt marry my daughter." " That is all very well," said he, " but still I do not know what it is to shudder !”

Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 4 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

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Scholars’ trail — 7references

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Filed under Speaking beasts – domestic.

Filed beside it
Speaking sheepSpeaking goatSpeaking horseSpeaking hogSpeaking cowSpeaking camelSpeaking dog
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Magic bedResuscitation by warming dead manRevenant as dog. (Cf. E421.3.6.)Revenant as old manFear test: going into the church at night and ringing the bellHero plays skittles with demonsOgre's (dwarf's) beard caught fastDressmaker (milliner, etc.)Adultery punished. (Cf. Q411.0.1, Q413.2, Q414.0.2, Q416.1.1, Q418.1, Q421.0.2, Q421.0.6, Q424.2, Q428.1, Q431.8, Q432.2, Q434.1, Q451.1.5, Q451.2.4, Q451.4.8, Q451.5.1, Q451.6.1, Q451.14, Q455.2, Q456.0.1, Q457.3, Q458.0.1, Q461.3, Q466.1, Q469.1, Q473.0.2, Q473.1.1, Q473.2.1, Q478.1, Q478.2, Q478.3, Q484, Q493.1, Q499.2.1, Q537.1, Q552.3.0.3, Q555.2, Q587.)Hanging as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.)Several men marry one woman
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