μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

  • Missouri-FrenchCarrière.
  • general *RTP V 15
  • general *Fb "ørn" III 1183b
  • general *Hdwb. d. Aberglaubens s.v. "Vogelhochzeit"
  • general Mélusine I 193, 287, 553
Within the index

Filed under Animal weddings.

23 finer motifs beneath it
Wedding of turkey and peacock. All birds invited except eagle. This omission starts great conflictWedding of eagle with another birdWedding of lark and another birdWedding of owlWedding of finch with another bird. (Cf. B285.1.)Wedding of goldfinch with another birdWedding of bullfinch with another birdWedding of titmouse with another birdWedding of wren with another birdWedding of sparrow and another birdWedding of blackbird with another birdWedding of thrush with another birdWedding of woodpecker with another birdWedding of magpie with another birdWedding of heathcock with another birdWedding of raven with another birdWedding of quail with another birdWedding of hoopoe with another birdWedding of cuckoo with another birdWedding of pigeon with another birdWedding of cock and henWedding of crow and titmouseThe courtship of the stork and the crane. Go a-courting one another across the marshes but never come to an understanding, as each time either one or the other changes his mind. (Cf. T91.)
Filed beside it
Beast weddingWedding of fishWedding of amphibiansWedding of insectsPlant wedding
Carried in tale types

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