Speaking bird — Mythoi

Motif

Speaking bird.

Animals. · Animals with human traits. · Speaking animals. · view the constellation · filed as B211.3

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Scholars’ trail — 15references

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.

Irish mythCross
BretonSébillot Incidents s.v. "oiseau". – Arabian: Burton III 126n, 129ff., SV 300
India*Thompson-Balys
ChineseGraham
Missouri-FrenchCarrière
JewishNeuman
AfricaBouveignes 109, (Upoto): Einstein 137, (Duala): Lederbogen V 139. – Cf. Type 720 (BP I 412).
general Type 516
general *Cox 527–9
general Penzer I 48
general Dickson Valentine and Orson 51 n. 60
general Tobler Epiphanie der Seele 53
general *Fb "fugl"
general Krappe Hispanic Review I (1933) 67ff.
general Bloomfield On Talking Birds in Hindu Fiction (Festschrift für Ernst Windisch) 349ff.

Within the index

Filed under Animal uses human speech.

9 finer motifs beneath it

Speaking turkey Speaking cock Speaking goose Speaking parrot Speaking dove Speaking raven Speaking sparrow Speaking vulture Speaking crow

Filed beside it

Animals speak, praising God, on the night of Christ's Nativity Speaking beasts – domestic Speaking beast – wild Speaking insects Speaking fish Speaking reptile Speaking amphibia

Travels with

Bird with magic wisdom. (Cf. A1904, B130, B211.3.)

Carried in tale types

Faithful John · ATU 51618 recorded variants
The Flight on the Grateful Eagle (previously The Marvelous Eagle Gives the Hero a Box) · ATU 5372 recorded variants

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