μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Speaking bear.

Animals. · Animals with human traits. · Speaking animals. · view the constellation · filed as B211.2.3

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“At last the goldsmith said, " I should indeed like to have the bird itself." The poor man went into the forest for the third time, and again saw the golden bird sitting on the tree, so he took a stone and brought it down and carried it to his brother, who gave him a great heap of gold for it. " Now I can get on," tliought he, and went contentedly home. The goldsmith was crafty and cunning, and knew very well what kind of a bird it was.”

Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 60 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
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.

  • GermanGrimm Nos. 60, 114, 161
  • French-CanadianSister Marie Ursule (B211.22).
Within the index

Filed under Speaking beast – wild.

Filed beside it
Speaking stagSpeaking lionSpeaking wolfSpeaking foxSpeaking hare (rabbit)Speaking sea-beastSpeaking mouseSpeaking ratSpeaking monkey
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Roc. A giant bird which carries off men in its clawsTreasure from bird's feathersSpeaking lionSpeaking wolfSpeaking foxSpeaking hare (rabbit)Helpful animals a giftRelease of animal by hunter (fisher)Animals attracted by musicMagic objects possessed by witch, sorcerer or evil dwarf. (Cf. F451.7, G234, D1711.)Witch lives in forestWitch transforms to stone

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