μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Speaking bird.

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

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross
  • Breton Sébillot Incidents s.v. "oiseau". – Arabian: Burton III 126n, 129ff., SV 300
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Chinese Graham
  • Missouri-French Carrière
  • Jewish Neuman
  • Africa Bouveignes 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 (Thompson’s cf.)
Bird with magic wisdom. (Cf. A1904, B130, B211.3.)
Carried in tale types

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