Bird language.
Animals. · Animals with human traits. · Speaking animals. · view the constellation · filed as B215.1
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Literary Crystallization Masnavi i Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets (abridged) , Book 2, Story 18
- Yoruba The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa , Chapter 12
- Literary Crystallization Masnavi i Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets (abridged) , Book 4, Story 2
- Depth Commentary Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom , Chapter I
Filed across the traditions
- Greek Frazer Apollodorus I 86 n. 2 (Melampus) → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. IX
- Icel. Völsungasaga p. 45, cf. von Sydow Fåvne
- Flemish DeMeyer FFC XXXVII 87 No. 90a
- Jewish Neuman
- Hindu Penzer *II 107, IV 145
- India *Thompson-Balys.
- general *Types 517, 671, 781
- general *BP I 322
- general Cox 497 n. 32
- general *W. Seelman "Die Vogelsprachen (Vogelparlamente) der mittelalterlichen Literatur" Jahrh. d. Vereins f. niederdeutsche Sprachforschung XIV 102f
Within the index
Filed under Animal languages. The various animals have languages of their own. (Cf. B251.1.2.)
Filed beside it
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Carried in tale types
- The Boy who Understands the Language of Birds (previously The Boy who Learned Many Things) · ATU 517 2 recorded variants
- The Three Languages · ATU 671 1 recorded variant
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