Birds nest in saint's hand (cowl)

Motif

Birds nest in saint's hand (cowl).

Animals. · Animals with human traits. · Religious animals. · view the constellation · filed as B256.1

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.

Saints' legend (Irish)Plummer cxlvi.
Irish mythCross.

Within the index

Filed under Animal as servant of saint. (Cf. B292.)

1 finer motif beneath it

Birds perch on hands and head of saint

Filed beside it

Animal deluded by saint St. Anthony's pigs. Pigs dedicated to saint held sacred Deer makes its horns available as a bookholder to a saint Domesticated wolves Obedience of the feathered creatures to the commands of saint Boar serves saint. (Cf. B183.)Tiger sweeps temple for saint Saint's prayer causes wolf to bring back child Stags plow for saint Fly, wren, fox live with cleric Wolf returns sheep stolen from saint Whale raises back so that voyaging clerics can land to celebrate

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